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Clairvoyance 



J. C. F. GRUMBINE. 



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CLAIRVOYANCE 



A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY 
CONCERNING ITS LAW, 
NATURE AND UNFOLDMENT. 



BY 

J. C. F. GRUMBINE, 

President of the College of Psychical Sciences 

and Unfoldment, Syracuse, N. Y. 



SECOND EDITION. 



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1899 



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CONTENTS. 



PART I. 

LESSON I. 
Clairvoyance, Its Definition and Office 

LESSON II. 
Clairvoyance, Its Nature and Law of Manifesta- 
tion and Expression. The Trance 

LESSON III. 
Clairvoyance and Intuition Compared and Corre- 
lated 

LESSON IV. 
The Spirit Limited in Matter 

LESSON V. 
The Science of Optics, Materially and Spiritually 
Considered 

LESSON VI. 

Vibrations, Their Law in Relation to Light and 
Sight 



CONTENTS. 

PART II. 

LESSON VII. 
Spirit in Relation to Time and Space. The Sphere 
and Office of Matter 

LESSON VIII. 
Spirit in Relation to Control. The Uses of Mag- 
netism and Electricity. Hypnotism 

LESSON IX. 
Color, Its Definition and Meaning 

LESSON X. 
Clairvoyance and Consciousness in Relation to the 
Spiritual Perception 

LESSON XL 
How the Sensitive is Unfolded in Clairvoyance. 
The Spirit's Laboratory 

LESSON XII. 
The Higher Aspect of Clairvoyance 



PUBLISHER'S NOTE. 

THIS work is both novel and unique in its subject- 
matter as well as in the treatment of it. It is origin- 
al, inasmuch as it marks a new era in metaphysics and 
spiritual science. It is a book within a book. It is one 
of a series of Teachings which form, as the author sees 
fit to name it, a "System of Philosophy Concerning 
Divinity,' ' of which Psychomctry is the first series, 
Clairvoyance the second, Inspiration the third, Psy- 
chopathy the fourth, Illumination the fifth. Collective- 
ly, they establish a Rationale of Divinity. The author 
is a seer; and while the philosophy herein declared and 
taught will satisfy the needs of those who recognize 
spirit, the spiritual nature and life of the world, its 
merits will and must stand the test of the invisible yet 
omnipotent spirit which shapes civilization and evolves 
consciousness. There is a growing faith in the Divin- 
ity of man and its potential functions. , Supernatural- 
ism as theologically conceived is scientifically absurd, 
but re-defined, that is, given a spiritual and not a dog- 
matic interpretation, signifies the depth of a spiritual 
perception of Nature's forces and her unchanging law. 
Phenomena and noumena are correlative and coexistent 
in the sphere of causality. All is law, the embodiment 
and expression of law. 

The time will come when churchmen, like Professor 
Drummond and Lyman Abbott, will not be sacrificed 
upon the altar where the sainth^ Son of Man inspired 
their works in his name. England has paid dearly, she 



6 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

will yet pay more dearly, for the blood of a consecrat- 
ed liberalism. The wine press is still red with the fruit- 
age of a fading century and the new age is framing a 
cross on Golgotha for the prophets of the future gen- 
erations. Still the Voice in the Wilderness will not 
cease its celestial monotone. The prophet has his ca- 
reer, he must sow the seed, whatever the world may 
care for the harvest. It is destiny, it is Divinity. 

Speaking of this omnipresent law of the human con- 
sciousness, a reformer of note has written: "The in- 
spired men are fewer. Whence their emanation, where 
and how they got their power, and b} r what rule they 
lived, moved, and had their being, we know not. There 
is no explication to their lives. They rose from shadow 
and they went in mist. We see them, feel them, but 
we know them not. They came, God's -word upon 
their lips; they did their office, God's mantle about 
them; and they passed away, God's holy light between 
the world and them, leaving behind a memory, half 
mortal and half myth. From the first to the last they 
were the creations of some special Providence, baffling 
the wit of man to fathom, defeating the machinations 
of the world, the flesh and the devil, and, their work 
done, passing from the scene as mysteriously as they 
had come upon it." 

So is it, and so it will ever be, while their vision and 
work leaven and idealize society. It is this law which 
the author of this book seeks to make clear and, quite 
naturally, to prove that man is the oracle of the Di- 
vine Presence. 

The reason why this book was published first is that 
it is less technical and will prepare the student for the 
other volumes of this remarkable System of Divinity. 



INTRODUCTION. 

These Teachings constitute one of a series. It forms 
a rationale or system of instruction for the unfoldment 
of the spiritual power (the natural endowment of all 
souls), commonly designated Clairvoyance. The sys- 
tem of Philosophy is the simple solution of the ques- 
tion of human clairvoyance. These Teachings are neith- 
er abnormal nor supernatural in origin. They ap- 
peal to the reason and are the corollary of Nature's 
Laws and Causation. 

Inspiration may be misunderstood, even denied, yet 
it is the most natural force in the world. Were it 
otherwise, it could not be. All thought is inspiration 
in character, source and end, and when truly analyzed 
establishes not only a priori knowledge but the eter- 
nality of spirit. Thought really is spirit vibration, and 
has its source, not in the brain, nor in any of its ag- 
encies, or subordinate instrumentalities, but in spirit. 
To understand this, it must be realized that even 
organism has it origin in spirit. This we can 
both affirm and prove, for the soul is the basis, 
as it is the law, of all its functions. Organism and 
organs pre-suppose their spiritual prototype. Man as 
an entity, immured in matter, is to be analyzed spirit- 
ually as well as materially; he is to be considered, not 
as an inverted p3^ramid, but in his true relation to what 
he is, as well as what he manifests, that is, what is 
externalized. Organism is what it is, because soul is 
what it is. Never is man what he is because organism 
is what it is. Spirit, the organizer and seat of intelli- 



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gence, makes not only organism but organization pos- 
sible. Thus the brain is acted upon, never does it act 
per se. Thus organism obeys, never does it govern, 
spirit. The brain demonstrates the existence of spirit, 
not its evolution or involution. Its office is to mani- 
fest spirit as a mirror reflects the image of a form. In 
itself it is non-existent, non-creative, non-evolutionary. 
Thought shines through it as light through a lens. 
The brain neither creates nor produces thought — it but 
reflects it. 

Thought as the effect of spirit is two-fold in its mode 
of manifestation. Always remember it is of and from spir- 
it, whether it be on this plane or another, incarnate or 
excarnate, as the words are generally understood. 
Experience is thought understood. It is more than 
demonstration. Tuition is experience; intuition is di- 
vine inspiration. Tuition is inspiration realized. A 
line of demarcation should be drawn between intuition 
and inspiration as universally or philosophically inter- 
preted and understood. Intuition is the source of 
truth from within — this we designate Divine Inspiration. 
Inspiration is thought from a spirit or from spirits in 
or out of the material form. When in the mortal form 
such inspiration is called telepathy or thought trans- 
ference, and is often induced by suggestion and hypno- 
tism. When not so induced, it is the direct or indirect 
transferrence of thought from plane to plane, through 
medial and harmonial conditions. 

That inspiration is possible to-day, as it was dem- 
onstrable throughout the history of the past, evidence 
of a various kind could be cited, all of which is unnec- 
essary when the source of thought as interpreted by 
the true System of Divinity is fully understood. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 



To Our Beloved Classes Throughout the World: 

Beloved Ones: To you we extend greetings. We 
meet you, as it were, across the silvery ocean of life, 
beyond the valley of the shadow of death on the side 
of immortal life, not as strangers or sojourners in a 
strange land but as those who feel the kinship of spirit, 
who have awakened to the law of life and spirit, and 
who realize that time and space, nor life or death 
nor principality, height or depth, can separate spirit. 
In this sacred marriage of our spiritual natures by as- 
piration and spirituality, by spheres and planes of re- 
ciprocal love, we are one, though seemingly disassoci- 
ated and separated by death. We stand within the 
veil, ever drawn to you, our love for you and our de- 
votion to the cause of Humanity, our consecration to 
the Supreme Good, as firm and persistent as when in 
the earth life. We pla\ r ed amid the shadows of the out- 
ward world as you do and we listened to the music 
of the spheres as Nature vibrated it. Step by step, our 
unfoldment was realized, but little did we dream that 
every act, as every thread in a shuttle that moves to 
and fro in the loom of life, formed the character of our 
spiritual being. This is the lesson of error, the aim of 
evil, that possessed of being, the spirit should rise into 
its final expression, its apotheosis. The exercise of each 
organ, nerve function, sense, faculty, perception of be- 
ing, is for one purpose. All subordinate or collateral 
aims pay tribute to this purpose. It shines as the day 
star when all other orbs of light are destroyed. It 
towers as a flame, unquenchable and divine, when all 
other fires within the bosom are extinguished. It at- 



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tracts as it fashions the soul in every plane and sphere, 
and it is the light that light eth everyone that comet h 
into the world. It is the light of Divinity that unrolls 
the shadow of life and death, truth and error, love and 
evil, in relative spheres of expression. It is the inter- 
pretation of the unchanging Law, of the Logos of relig- 
ion, of the unspoken word of Mystics, of the knowledge 
of Science. It is, it governs Being. It is God. All suc- 
cess, material and spiritual, must be one with it or 
it fails in its ideals. No superficial planes or height 
of being will avail to make it other than a consuming 
flame when shadows play in its aureole. Civilization, 
progress, history, are measured by it. It is the abso- 
lute ^standard of light. As science is evidenced by dem- 
onstration, so consciousness in its sphere of realization 
expresses the truth, this law, this apotheosis. As all 
drops of rain, as all springs, creeks and rivers are sub- 
ject to the law of the specific gravity of their elements 
and all tend to equipoise, so souls, in segregation and 
schools, move toward one end and one amnitization. 
Reality dictates the modes of spirit and psjxhic mani- 
festation and expression. Life in every plane and 
sphere is harmonial and the exact illustration of the 
numerals in mathematical relations. Geometry is the 
exponent of the soul's progress in the light of the 
square, triangle, star or double triangle and circle, as 
algebra is the interpretation of time and motion. Thus 
matter serves spirit and both reflect and obey the law 
that geometries mathematics. Mathematics illustra- 
tes Religion as Science evidences Inspiration. * When 



* The student will read profitably the luminious work on "Geom- 
etry and Faith" by Dr. Hill, late President of Harvard University. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 11 

either mathematics or inspiration is comprehended, or 
when its law of relation is perceived, the conflict be- 
tween spirit and matter, religion and science, spiritual- 
ism and materialism, is at end, their integrity of es- 
sence and form will then be perceived and established. 
All thought in forms of tuition, intuition or divine 
inspiration, in outward S3 r mbols of manifestation and 
expression are predicates of the soul's progress. Pro- 
gress means literally "going forth," and the path of life 
is literally egress from the night of ignorance and un- 
consciousness (and we use the word as expressing a 
degree of light and knowledge) into the day of truth, 
and hence illumination or the attainment of Divinity' 
or spiritual realization. Thus manifestation and ex- 
pression of spirit are for this purpose and this purpose 
only. Culture must then be radical, spiritual, as well 
as artistic, social and political, if it shall fulfill the end 
of Being. Education must be comprehensive, must in- 
clude the science of the soul as well as matter, must 
include the philosophy of inspiration, as Divinity teach- 
es and reveals it, as well as sensuous knowledge, it 
must reach in as w r ell as out for the surpassing light 
of the eternal self, if it is to lead mankind to a real 
height or an absolute attainment of spirit. To exist 
is not to live, as to die is not to reach oblivion or 
Heaven. Life is consciousness of duty and of duty ob- 
eyed and done. Thus all efforts for unfoldment should 
advance the spirit one degree nearer to Divinity, 
Hence, all attempt to confer with the denizens of an- 
other world should be for higher understanding of the 
Law of Being. Every desire for spiritual or medial ad- 
vancement, for the practical understanding and use of 
adeptship, whether of the mental or material r 



12 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

should be for the purpose of leading mankind to a 
knowledge of the truth. 

And as we draw near to you through these, our in- 
spirations, we would impress upon your minds the ne- 
cessity of thus co-laboring with us, that as light il- 
lumes you, so may it reflect unto others, that it may 
not come to pass in this century, as it was written of 
the first when the humble Nazarene walked the earth, 
"The light shone into the darkness but the darkness 
apprehended it not;" rather, that it may be said of you 
"The exceeding glory of the light shone through them, 
so that men felt it to be good to be with them/' This 
is the light which is revealed in the unfoldment of 
clairvoyance the philosophy of which shall be taught 
you. Enter the temple of the spirit without fear, 
with clean hearts, and bow at the shrine where Love 
dictates her inspiration, and as each lesson is given, in- 
breathe its inspirations and gradually the veils will lift 
from your outward eyes and the condition that con- 
ceals the spirit of your loved ones, even the angels, aye, 
God, will be removed and you will be permitted to walk 
and talk with them. May the symbol of the "White 
Rose" teach }^ou that angel love will lead you from 
above as it will inspire you from within until all things 
are fulfilled, 

The Order of the White Rose. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 13 



FIRST PRINCIPLES. 

1. Tranquilize the spiritual, mental and material 
conditions by becoming at one with the spirit. This 
is attained by approaching the spirit in an aspirational 
or prayerful mood; by being receptive to inspirations as 
the earth is receptive to rays of light; by being passive, 
not negative in spirit, viz., positive to vibrations 
which play in the sea of materiality, and passive to 
vibrations which play in the sea of ethereality; by be- 
ing calm and restful, not impatient, anxious, worldly, 
selfish in your communication with spirit. Prepare, as 
it were, a mental state as smooth and lucid and as 
unruffled and unmarred by contrary vibrations as a 
placid bosom of a lake. Thus on or into the mind, as 
a mirror, the image of thought through the process of 
clairvoyance will appear. 

2. The vision will be assisted in concentration by 
fixing the eye on a clear glass filled with clear water 
(aqua pura), and watching, as it were, the scenes that 
appear and disappear. This is simply suggested as an 
aid and not as a necessity for those whose minds are 
distracted and whose vision will not respond to the 
will or spirit. Place the glass on a stand and have 
about it, when impressed, fresh flowers. Sit at least 
six feet from the stand. Change the water at each 
sitting. 



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3. Sit uniformly at stated times and place and 
three times a week, thirty minutes each time. Have 
the atmosphere in the room cool and fresh and free of 
all animal and vegetable impurities. 

4. Sit in a dimly lighted room and alternate with 
total darkness. When sitting in the dark, correlate all 
impressions, that is, subjective phenomena, with all 
manifestations, or objective phenonena, of the spirit. 
Observe the lights, forms, faces, symbols, names, 
places, that are shown to yon and watch the develop- 
ment or developing process through which you are 
taken. Note how conditions are prepared for the re- 
flection of an idea in the mind and thence (through 
mind) on matter. Observe how faces, figures, etc., are 
formed out of the magnetic waves that play in your at- 
mosphere and preceive how, by holding the thought, 
the spirit weaves about it a form or image and which, 
when fully manifest, becomes a thought form, an ether- 
ialization or materialization. 

5. Sit alone. Avoid promiscuous circles and influ- 
ences. Sit with and follow the guidance of no media, 
lest your development is destroyed, the forces scattered 
and the guidance set at naught. 

6. Sit when conditions can be best adapted to the 
work at hand. The morning or evening hours are the 
best. 

7. Sit facing the East, that you may be in line with 
the spiritual or electrical wave currents which move 
eastward from the West. At night sleep with your 
head to the North by East. 

8. A very light lunch before retiring is allowed. 

9. Be uniform in diet, sleep, habits, recreations. 

10. Pursue a vegetarian diet. Avoid as far as it is 



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possible, meats, stimulants, tobacco, condiments, all 
greas}^ substances. 

11. Live a pure, unselfish life, as spirituality has ev- 
erything to do with clairvoyance realization. It furnish 
a clear atmosphere for the spirit and thus extends the 
range of vision by furnishing a lucidity for definition 
and penetration. 

12. Music is a valuable accessory and helps to 
bring about the necessary concentration. 

13. As unfoldment means a gradual attainment of 
Divinity, clairvoyance is subject to the law that gov- 
erns Divinity. Do not force results, but remember 
that though you are unaware, you through effort are 
reaching the end in view, and by holding the forces, 
co-operating with (and not by grieving) the spirit, you 
will attain to that soul elevation where, as in a mirror, 
the spiritual universe will appear reflected. This will 
be neither a mirage of the vision not a delusion of the 
senses, but a realization of Being. Go often with the 
Son of Man, the Teacher of Galilee, to the mountains 
and not only pray there but breathe the lessons of the 
heights. 

14. Keep the body and clothes you wear clean. 

15. During the process of unfoldment, go where 
the best music and lectures may be heard and where 
paintings and scenery of a high order may be seen. 
Above all, live a spiritual life, and keep close to the£ 
eternal self. 

A WORD ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTS. 

It is not intended that the experiments which fol- 
low each lesson should be applied abstractly; rather, 



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they should be tried in all conditions of life and en- 
vironments, as they are susceptible to manifold var- 
iations and implications. They are both esoteric and 
exoteric in character and touch necessarily upon the 
field occupied by Psychometry. However, if the stud- 
ent will apply himself diligently to them, caring the 
most for successful results, and the least for pre-dis- 
posed prejudices as to their impracticability or for the 
antecedent condemnation of the Mother Grundy s of 
both Physical, Social and Psychological Sciences or 
the ipse dixit of self-elected infallibility, such spirit 
of research and consecration will bring its rewards. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 17 



LESSON I. 

CLAIRVOYANCE. 

Its Definition and Office. 

In this series of Teaching we shall not attempt nor 
seek to effect the impossible. We are aware that 
clairvoyance, together with every other power of the 
spirit, is the natural possession of all beings; we are 
aware that, whatever may be its definition or office, it 
has a place in the domain of Nature, as is attested by 
the history of the alleged "miraculous;" we are aware 
that though it is a faculty or possession of the mind 
denied by the agnostic and material scientist on the 
general ground that spirit as such has no existence 
separable from brain or organism (which position has 
been proven false by the phenomena of hypnotism, 
mind reading and telepathy); yet we maintain that 
clairvoyance is the natural seeing of all creatures. 
The seemingly strange and inexplicable phenomena of 
clairvoyance, though repudiated by certain scientists as 
the result of abnormal action of the mind or as the effect 
of hallucination and hysteria, have made a very pro- 
found impression on a more earnest class of scientists, 
who, like the eminent Prof. Alfred Wallace, Crookes, 
Zollner and others, have applied an intuitive test, nay. 



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have applied even a material test, and found them to 
belong to a psychic realm, in short, found them to be 
just what they purported to be. The mental as well 
as the physical phases or forms of spirit manifesta- 
tions respond to their specific tests and prove by so 
doing their sphere or place in the range of Nature's 
phenomena. The Spirit, whatever may be the hy- 
pothesis of its origin or composition is and by 
this we mean, it, as truly as any so-called ele- 
ments, has a sphere in the universe and is ex- 
plicable by her unchanging law. By Nature, we 
mean the realm inclusive of all forms of life. Spirit 
demonstrates its being as well as powers through the 
medium of Nature, and in the sea of her causation or 
law it expresses itself. Whatever may be its wonderful 
and eternal endowment, Nature receives the reflection 
of it in her realm of causes and effects. She is the sea 
in which spirit swims, as ether is the medium that 
permeates all matter, and into this sea, as a mirror, 
the spirit reveals itself. The subtle and indivisible con- 
sciousness, inexplicable to both the scientist and phil- 
osopher, manifests here in Nature with no less concern 
for and obedience to Law as the elementary composi- 
tions of matter and force. Psychology, as well as 
physics, belongs to Nature and her processes, and there 
is naught anywhere in the domain of being that is not 
comprehended by Nature. This being at once admit- 
ted and true, the difficulty in the way of a clear and 
perfect understanding of spirit in the sphere and light 
of its phenomena has been, first, the limitations which 
men of science or theology place upon Nature and the 
ability of Nature to reveal or manifest spirit through 
her processes, and, secondly, the lack of perception of 



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the interior workings or divine immanency by which 
the phenomenal world is established in and through the 
noumenal world. That there is uniform causation, in 
Nature, or that Nature herself must be uniform in her 
causation, follows the rejection of the alleged supernat- 
ural or interposition or interference of Deity; and that 
such is the natural order, experience and knowledge 
prove; but, that in the consideration of causation, 
however uniform, where there is unchanging law, 
science or theology should affirm the impos- 
sibility of spirit power as spirit manifestations 
exhibit it, that it is no part and corollary of this causa- 
tion, is unquestionably presumptuous, if not prejudicial 
in the extreme. Spirit may copy or plagiarize the uni- 
form causation in its own laboratories where, as in 
seances for the display of all kinds of materialization, 
spirits excarnate repeat them by processes both chemi- 
cal and natural, though subtler and finer in sphere and 
action, just as a chemist re-combines the elements of 
Irydrogen, sulphur and oxygen into a formula of sul- 
phuric acid, or in a more simple way combines hydro- 
gen and oxygen to form water. This we call copying 
or plagiarizing Nature. The elements exist and cannot 
be re-created by any spirit incarnate or excarnate, but, 
through a knowledge of Nature, her law or processes 
spirit can combine and re-combine by Nature's own for- 
mula which is eternal and inherent in herself. So, in 
like manner, the spirit manifestations of the seance 
room which bear a likeness to the forms of Nature 
compare really with all physical phenomena 
of Nature, inasmuch as they are fashioned 
after them, are, in plain words, materialized and 
de-materialized by compliance with her law. It takes 



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spirit on either plane to effect the result. The question 
which we shall ask the materialist to answer is, what 
does he know of Nature per se, or beyond the horizon 
of visible causes and effects which he terms Nature? He 
knows absolutely nothing. Without access to the 
knowledge which illumination, intuition and clair- 
voyance give, he sees, as he examines but the hemis- 
phere of the universe, one and that the shadowy or 
phenomenal side of life. He knows naught of another 
world or form of life bey o ad the change called death. 
He doubts, he denies, he condemns all such affirmations 
of knowledge on the part of his equally wise, perhaps 
wiser opponent, and with ignorance and denial as his 
weapons, he seeks to answer intelligently the above 
question. We hold that he has no right to attempt to 
answer the question at all without investigating the 
grounds of his opponent, and then not, unless, freed 
from pride and prejudice, he will accept what is dem- 
onstrable to his reason. 

And what we here say concerning the material forms 
of the spirit phenomena, plagiarized from Nature by ex- 
carnate spirit in the seance room of media, is equally 
true of the higher order of phenomena, the mental, 
such as clairvoyance and clair audience, which are 
but kinds of the same phenomena of spirit. 
Seeing and hearing spiritually is not impossi- 
ble when it is remembered that it is the only kind of 
seeing and hearing that is possible; but when even the 
seeing or hearing becomes inexplicable by the formula 
of science, when it must be accounted for by a causa- 
tion, larger and more comprehensive than that of the 
books of the Royal Academy of Science, even then, it is 
none the less natural, none the less within the domain 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 21 

of Nature, none the less the effect of causation. The 
fact is, the word causation, as the word God, has been 
made a fetish and an unalterable and immovable con- 
cept of human understanding, whereas, the growing 
mind of man has given it each day and year a larger 
and more inclusive sphere of definition. Mankind no 
longer accepts but rejects the mythology of the Israel- 
ites, Greeks, Romans, Hindus, Indians, but religion 
has not become less a fact by the disintegration and 
destruction of fetishism. So, also, in the realm of sci- 
ence and philosophy, systems of thought have been de- 
vised by noble minds and each created a concept or for- 
mula of truth, yet larger and deeper, seemingly, grew 
the ocean of truth as each life touched its waters. The 
ocean received the river of each one's thoughts, but lost 
apparently not an atom of itself. So to this same cau- 
sation we turn for the definition and interpretation of 
clairvoyance. And, possessed of its facts or phenomena, 
you have a right to reject any system of religion, science, 
or philosophy that first repudiates them and then de- 
nies clairvoyance as manifest, demonstrated and estab- 
lished by them; so that there should be no barrier to 
progress in the accumulation of knowledge and the 
freedom of the soul's life and expression of thought. 
This is the true scientific spirit that should character- 
ize our attitude to truth and demand a comformity, 
not to obsolete formulas of science or theology, but to 
facts, a readjustment of thought and thinking to the 
truth that must now as alwaj^s shape its present and 
future definitions. 

Clairvoyance is really, by definition, clear seeing. It 
is the awakened and awakening consciousness, and 
as such, broadly speaking, comprehends all that is 



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symbolized by eyes, senses, faculties, intuition, mind and 
spirit. Among the Greeks it was likened to Apollo, 
who bore the flame of Jove around the world in a 
torch of piercing light, and by the Egyptians it was 
likened to the all seeing eye that never slept. Conscious- 
ness, as we here designate clairvoyance, is the most 
inclusive synonym that could possibly be einplo} r ed to 
illustrate "seeing;" for between seeing and perceiving, 
or "seeing through" any thing, there is but a slight 
shade of difference of thought or meaning. To see 
anything, as the phase is commonly used, is to see the 
outward form or proportion, and thusto understand the 
superficial definition; to see through anything is to see it 
not only in outward form but in essence, or as it is, 
and thus to perceive it and receive a true conception 
or definition of it. Seeing thus leads to perceiving, and 
may be called the means whereby one sees. Yet what 
we here teach concerning seeing in contradistinction 
to perceiving must not be given a literal signification, 
but it must be taken in the broad, spiritual sense. 
Seeing is instrumental to perceiving, so far as mater- 
ial things, that is, the forms of entities, are concerned, 
but mind, soul, spirit, is basic to all seeing or perceiv- 
ing. 

Organically the eye serves the so-called sense of 
sight; the sense of sight serves the mind; the mind 
serves spirit, in all that outworks destiny. The spirit 
is seemingly duplex and reflex in character and action, 
and by this we mean it is concerned with the object- 
ive and subjective sphere of life. The objective is com- 
prehended by the material and the subjective * by the 
spiritual universe. The spirit thus constituted receives 

*' Subjective is a part of the spiritual or highest self. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 23 

upon its lens, the mind, impressions from these two 
realms and it perceives them, according to its lucidity 
or ability to realize them. Thus, while impressions 
from the spiritual universe are constantly imping- 
ing on the mind, just as impressions from the mater- 
ial universe are floating in through the organ of the 
eye or sense of sight or feeling (for the veritable blind 
can "see" by feeling and thus form definitions of ob- 
jects), few, indeed, are able to define such impressions 
or realize them as such, or even draw a line of demar- 
cation between those that enter from the objective and 
those that enter from the subjective realm. This is 
due to the fact that mortals have not been so trained 
as to analyze impressions, or it is because of false the- 
ories of consciousness and false psychologies; thus they 
have regarded the mind or outward consciousness as 
the factor of sensation and thought, and have been 
concerned only with what is external, the objective or 
material realm of life. Cognition has as a result been 
limited by the necessity of the case to sensuous knowl- 
edge, and the ocean of inspiration has been regarded 
as a mirage of the mind, having no real existence in 
the desert of earth forms and life; whereas this very 
ocean is causal and fundamental to all that proceeds 
from or recedes into it. This character of the spirit or 
mind being once recognized, more careful attention 
and scrutiny can be given to all that manifests itself 
in it, and, more than this, a most perfect scope and 
definition of consciousness and the far-reaching extent 
of clairvoyance can be had. The objective and subject- 
ive spheres are one in one perfect correlation and in- 
tegrity of law. As each atom rotates on its axis in 
obedience to the law that revolves the planet earth and 



24 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

establishes the polarity of the sun, yet serves a purpose 
in its own sphere of action and serves it without mar 
or jar, so the mind acts in this two-fold manner obe- 
dient to the principles that establish souL If a defini- 
tion of the forms of things as materially understood 
can be had through the objective mind and the out- 
ward vision or sense of sight, surely a definition 
of the forms of things as spiritually understood can be 
had through subjective mind and the inward vision or 
consciousness. If spirit is the eye that sees and per- 
ceives, then it has access to its own realm T that of 
spirit in the objective and subjective sphere and form. 
This is self-evident and follows the admission that the 
spiritual universe is (as the facts of life, of spirit excar- 
nate prove). 

This consciousness is the center of thought radiation 
where impressions meet and where they are received 
and perceived. This fact must be understood in the 
very beginning of our Teachings and the relation and 
principle of it thoroughly mastered or what will 
follow will be ambiguous and confusing. 

The mind is a lens of the spirit r but it i& spiritual in 
its character and composition more so than the sen- 
sory, as the organ of the eye is the material lens of 
mind. Consciousness, in the final or absolute sense, 
bears just such an intermediary relation to its various 
subordinate lenses in the spheres of spirit. We teach 
that the soul is the primate or basis of all organism 
and when this is understood in the highest sense y 
it cannot be said that the material form of organism 
does not bear a relation to organism in itself or as a 
function of soul. 

The type is the basis; it establishes all of ifc^ forms 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 26 

which are but its manifestations, and from it as to it 
proceeds the multiplicity of relations which form the 
network or system of its operations. The system of 
muscles, veins, nerves, might, in an organic sense, be 
construed to be complete, if you begin from pri- 
mates, as brain, will, spirit, or the functions of brain, 
such as the sensory, nerves, and heart, for which they 
stand; yet they are correlated in order of form to the 
type which more readily approaches and bears a simil- 
itude to organism as .spiritually comprehended* 
Neither of them could act independently, and yet each 
does an independent work. Neither of them could ex- 
ist in the spirit independently, and each has a 
specific office and work in the divine arrangement. So, 
in this way, a similar congruity and harmony of re- 
lation and action exist between the organ eye, the 
sense of vision and the sensory where the sensations 
of outward visions are collected, and the mind and 
spirit in the consciousness which is the basis of them all; 
and the prototype is found in the spiritual counterpart 
which is, at once and simultaneously in action, the 
original basis of them. Thus, from the center of spirit, 
the consciousness opens the mystic all-seeing eye, veiled 
by the arrangement which is defined by materiality or 
material expression. 

Now could you see in the divine sense, the need of the 
eye, senses and mind would prove useless, but inas- 
much as consciousness is awakened by the process 
through which you pass, in seeing, seeing thus through 
eyes, senses and mind, you become aware of yourself, 
not onh r , to that degree that y ou are able to use, rise 
above but to dispense with them. By this we mean, 3^ou 
cease to use them or they have served their office or- 



2S CLAIRVOYANCE. 

ganically and functionally when the deeper conscious- 
ness has appeared and you, with the consciousness 
that you have unfolded or realized, cease to utilize 
what is no longer helpful or neccessary. Think of a 
germ employing a sheaf or shell or chrysalis out of 
which, as from a sepulcher, the life rises into a resurrection 
of new and higher forms of manifestations! Think of 
a man clinging to the mind of childhood, after a high- 
er and deeper consciousness has unfolded through the 
use of this same infantile mind; think of a bird going 
back into the shell, after its wings have cut the air, 
and its eye has caught the light of day; think of the 
spirit sighing to re-enter the womb of generative forms, 
after it has kissed the face of parent and received the 
caress of love from the denizens of earth and heaven! 
So, in like manner, not lost, but consumed, not neglect- 
ed, but utilized, the soul enters through each form of 
organism, through even the mind into a clearer and 
more absolute state of consciousness and Divinity. 

The fact is, that in the process of involution the mind 
with organism obeys the evolution of soul. All order 
and life, in expression, proceed by impulses, t Impulse 
is born of the principle and shapes the soul's apoth- 
eosis, and each impulse is in mathematical ratio to the 
other and in the succession of impulses, one order leads 
each and all. It is as the corpuscles of the blood that 
obey the beating or impulse of the heart, or the waves 
of the ocean or its tides that follow the impulses of 
the magnetic and electric seas that influx the worlds. Not 
chaos, but order, in Natttre's law. And as in each atom 



f Impulse invariably suggests vibration. All mentation is rhythmic. 
There can be no form of consciousness that is not inspired and 
fashioned by spirit by the formula of mathematics. 



CLAIRVOYANCE, 27 

the impulse throbs obedient to that in the galaxy, so, in 
like manner, the will of God or Nature (as you please) 
shapes and vibrates all subordinate waves of motion 
that move to and fro in the loom of life. Thus the 
eye conforms not only to the impulse of the original 
type of consciousness (which is to be realized), but to 
that form of the type of consciousness, the mind, which 
now is; or, vice versa, consciousness comforms to the 
extreme limit of it in materiality, the e} T e, which sees 
because mind is in touch organically with it. The 
office of the eye is to serve spirit in this effort to un- 
fold consciousness. And in so doing, in seeing and then 
perceiving the definition of things in the objective and 
subjective realm, clairvoyance truly and really is at- 
tained. 

We necessarily draw a line of demarcation between 
clairvoj^ance and mediumship and clairvoyance as here 
employed in the thought of the unfolded and unfolding 
consciousness and yet, as there is no phase of clairvoy- 
ance which is not beautifully at one with and produc- 
tive of consciousness in this sense of development or 
awakening, each has its place and serves a purpose. 
A clairvoyance which concerns the subjective realm, 
as a clairvoyance that concerns the objective realm, 
merely for outward definitions of forms of essence, is a 
clairvoyance of "seeing" but not a clairvoyance of 
"perceiving." Seeing is but beholding images of forms 
impressed upon the mind; perception is realizing the 
purpose; and if appropriated, it is gaining lucidity of 
consciousness, by which a clear vision of higher and 
more subtle spheres and planes of life may be realized. 

You are here advised to adhere strictly to this pur- 
pose of clairvoyance and to seek for the attainment 



28 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

and advancement of this interior consciousness where- 
in is revealed more than in the mind alone, which is 
changeable and which serves, as it awaits upon it, the 
surpassing light from within the spirit; in which, as 
in the light of the outward sun, can be seen, not 
only forms of things, but their definition and 
principle of action, composition and relation and 
by which the apotheosis may be reached. He that 
will climb to this height will be rewarded by the 
ethers that condition his attitude of vision and the 
view that stretches out before him, but he that loiters 
in the valley and will not ascend the mountain, who 
gazes at the heaven without and within through the 
atmospheres that mar and befog his terrestrial and 
celestial vision, will miss the object of these Teachings. 
Clairvoyance will be the means of reaching the new 
heaven and the new earth within the realm designated 
by time and space and comprehended by the senses, 
but it will establish an altar and a shrine in each home 
where spirit communion may be enjoyed and where 
the angels, ministrant upon earth's children, may ap- 
proach, that both thereby may receive the light and 
benediction of the skies, the co-operation of spirit all 
about us. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 29 



FIRST EXPERIMENT. 

Place a glass or goblet of clear, crystal water on 
the table. Become very passive and receptive. Con- 
centrate upon it and observe the pictures that mani- 
fest themselves. After the sitting note the same on paper 
and make comparisons with successive experiments. 
Be careful to note whether these pictures are from the 
objective or subjective realm. 



30 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



LESSON II. 

CLAIRVOYANCE. 

Its Nature and Law of Manifestation. 

We have shown that consciousness in the sphere and 
light of clairvoyance and that clairvoyance in the 
sphere and light of consciousness are fundamental 
to a definition of being. 

We have sought to elucidate how as the consciousness 
is unfolded, both seeing and perceiving become more 
marked and extended, if not more penetrative and 
piercing in their respecticve spheres of action. What 
obtains in one sphere and plane of vision, so far as the 
nature of clairvoyance is concerned, obtains with pre- 
cisely the same purpose in successive spheres and planes. 
There may be a variety of manifestations in the one 
mode or many modes of expression or unfoldment. 
Yet never do the manifestations outgrow the purpose 
of them, never does the expression exceed in sovereign- 
ty the end which it conserves. Invariable and immu- 
table is the nature of clairvoyance, and this is at once 
the magnificent and wonderful attribute of conscious- 
ness, because this nature waits upon consciousness. 
What is true of optics, or the material science of seeing, 
is true of consciousness, and vice versa. Consciousness 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 31 

is spiritually constructed as the outward eye is mater- 
ially, but on a far greater and deeper plan. There is 
no radical difference, but a similar relation between 
them. This must be so to ensure or to establish perfect 
unity of action. As in mechanics, as is illustrated in 
machinery, there is a coordinaton existing between 
the principles of dynamics, generically understood, and 
the principles of instruments, between the principles of 
motion and the principles of agency or matter, and the 
brain or mind of man who invents the machine which is 
to serve him, as well as to be the field of his operation; 
so, between the eye, the brain and the mind, in the larg- 
er sphere of the spirit, there is unity of design, purpose 
and action. It has been assumed that if this is so, then 
the eye should reflect in materiality all that is potent in 
consciousness. So it does, but scientists have excluded 
data which in psychology and spiritual science have 
declared a priori knowledge and consciousness. Hence 
men in all periods of history, like doubting Philip, have 
failed to grasp the spiritual or esoteric signification of 
such analogy. "Show us the father," said doubting 
Philip to Jesus, "and it sufficeth us." And the "I am in 
the Father and the Father in Me" still remains a 
mystery to the whole order of materialists, who, like 
Philip, fail to perceive the divine immanency in mat- 
ter or in man. Such must become transcendentalists 
before they reach a correct interpretation of spirit or 
matter in relation to each other. The design of con- 
sciousness is seen in each function or instrument which 
it uses, and as each function is a branch or part of the 
total mechanism or organism of the body, in which 
and through which the spirit operates, the material 
design and integrity are only perceived when correctly 



32 CLAIRVOYANCE, 

defined by and correlated to consciousness, which or- 
ganism subserves as it foreshadows. But the nature 
of the eye reveals the law and defines the nature of 
mind and consciousness. As in an apple, the nature 
of a part is that of the whole, and the apple is in ma- 
turity what it is in the fact of seed or tree, so permeat- 
ing the whole material frame of spirit, the nature of the 
consciousness is revealed. In this sense, the eye becomes 
at once the key to the nature of clairvoyance. For if 
in it or on it the nature of consciousness is manifest, 
then the purpose of consciousness, as we understand 
it, in the light of clairvoyance, will be perceived. Deep* 
er and broader the vision may become, but the nature 
will remain ultimately the same. The eye is the citadel 
where "you," the personality, is posited to receive the 
impressions which play upon and enter your sphere of 
vision. You see and perceive them, and in so doing, 
reveal the nature of spirit and consciousness in the 
light of clairvoyance. 

Two conditions enter into the ability of seeing, in 
the objective and subjective realms, in the material 
and spiritual universe. The first is "light" in the 
material, and, second, light in the spiritual sense. 
The organ of seeing, the eye, has no ability to see in 
itself; for if it had there would be no need of mind. 
It might, as a mirror or a placid lake, hold images 
of outward things in its myriad of lenses, but these 
would vanish with its own disintegration; but, even 
in such an instance, light is necessary for reflection. 
There is no reflection without light, which must give 
or make the reflection possible. Thus the eye could 
receive no image of outward things in darkness except 
darkness which is a form of light and holds concealed 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 33 

in it all definition of things. The light of the sun, 
moon and stars, or artificial light, is absolutely neces- 
sary for a material definition of things; and only 
where this light obtains can the mind cognize sensa- 
tions which carry from the world of phenomena to 
the world of spirit the result of seeing. * But, on the 
other hand, expose the inoperative organism of any 
person, the house vacated by the tenant, to the light 
of the sun, and when life is extinct the light of the 
world has no message to the spirit. The transition of 
the spirit from mortal life puts an end, for the time to 
both sensation and seeing, as literally understood, and 
this light, which makes a definition of things possible, 
has served its purpose, so far as this person is concerned. 
It bears no sensation to it. The body does not feel, 
though it may receive the ravages of disease, and 
while light plays about old and decaying forms, the 
life or spirit receives none of its potencies. It has 
reached a realm where the need of the light of sun, 
moon, stars and candles has ceased. Eliminate, if you 
can, in the problem of the soul's apotheosis, the mind as 
the lens of the spirit, upon which are impressed and 
through which are perceived the sensations and im- 
ages of sensations from the outward world, and light, 
as thus received, would fall as it does in the spaces about 
us, but, by virtue of the divine arrangement of the hu- 
man frame to mind and spirit, not one ray of light is 
lost. As long as consciousness is maintained through 
the mind in organism, so long does the light from with- 
out serve its purpose. Some see little, others see more, 

• Recent scientific experiments in astral light photography evi- 
dence the presence of a fine, subtle aura or light by which objects 
in the dark are susceptible to photographic impressions. 



34 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

as the degree of consciousness perceives, but the end 
is reached in all. 

There is, however, a perfect and beautiful correlation 
and adaptability of psychic rays of the light to rays 
which are regarded as material in character and de- 
rived by chemical processes and combinations. For 
it is these rays of light from within the soul which, 
interblending with and correlating themselves to the 
material rays of light, that make "vision" or seeing 
as well possible. There is, then, the light of conscious- 
ness as well as the light of manifestation or matter. 
One rules phenomena and the material universe, the 
other spirit and the spiritual universe. In sphere of 
law and action both reveal the same nature. There is 
harmony existing between the eye and material rays 
of light, and the consciousness and the spiritual rays 
of light, and both are interlinear, that is, one in one 
and one in many and vice versa, in every plane and 
sphere of consciousness. For instance, a child, in ap- 
proaching knowledge from without, sees outwardly in 
relations or definitions of things only that which the 
spiritual rays of light from within the soul give it to 
see. In other words, though the whole world is lit by 
the light of the sun, it sees it but not to perceive it, 
and the latter occurs as the former only really when 
the perfection of the spheres of light within and with- 
out is attained. Thus experience waits upon inspira- 
tion and tuition upon intuition, and science upon re- 
velation in the aeons of time and eternity. Thus the 
development or education of the child is from within 
outwardly, both in the seeing and perceiving of rays 
of light and what they defiue from and in both 
realms. This light of consciousness is the light that 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 35 

never was on land or sea, because it has its residence 
only in the spirit, and must there be perceived and 
realized. It is called the light of Light and to spirit 
excarnate it is the light of the spirit from within its 
own mystic realm. This light is the law of material 
light and dictates its phenomena. Its spectrum is un- 
iformly the same. Its colors have the same significa- 
tion. As there is one white light in both the material 
and spiritual universe, the nature of both are the 
same. Both interact harmoniously to reveal conscious- 
ness. This nature of clairvoyance of which we speak 
is the law of consciousness that makes clairvoyance 
the source or means of acquiring truth. If you would 
form two circles and in one place the sun at the center 
and in the other the spirit, through which the spirit- 
ual as in the other the material rays of light proceed, 
and make each degree a ray of light, paralleling the 
other in both circles, you would form a clearer notion 
of what we seek to teach by the inter-relation of the 
two forms of light. Number one in the circle of the sun 
corresponds and interacts with number one in the cir- 
cle of the spirit, and ever in mathematical ratio and 
geometrical progression. As the unchanging law des- 
tinates both circles, a turn from one towards two de- 
signates a higher unfoldment of consciousness. Be it 
not forgotten that one degree designates a circle in 
itself where spirit and matter interplay in this field of 
twofold light. The attainment of the soul's victory 
over matter is achieved in this transition in the circle 
of soul. Thus the manifestation of clairvoyance is 
obedient to this unchanging law which opens the vis- 
ion as it deepens the consciousness, and which reveals 
inspiration and spiritual ra} r s of light as human ex- 



36 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

pressions are utilized and states of consciousness real- 
alized. The law of clairvoyance is one of progressive 
seeing and perceiving according to our diagram, which, 
if esoterically understood, will become the formula for 
solving history and civilization. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 37 



SECOND EXPERIMENT. 

Sit in quiet concentration of spirit and form in your 
mind's eye an image of some one near and dear to you 
in spirit. Watch its formation and appearance and no- 
tice how it gradually becomes a spirit impression. 
Observe, how it clothes itself in the habiliments of 
spirit, and in the picture there are scenes presented. 
Try this experiment over and over and again and the 
transition from sense to spirit will be made and you 
will enter the sphere of spirit at will. 



38 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



LESSON III. 

CLAIRVOYANCE AND INTUITION 

Compared and Correlated. 

It is very necessary that the student of the spirit 
should have a clear and, so far as possible, a perfect 
definition of the relation which clairvoyance sustains 
to intuition. We have in a general way defined them 
as the "perception" of the spirit, but as this word is 
vague, ambiguous, and to some very misleading, it will 
be wise to make the word perception, as well as a defini- 
tion of both clairvoyance and intuition, more absolute. 
In the first place, whatever human nature manifests, 
that the spirit reveals and possesses. Naught can come 
through the mind or into the realm of mind, without 
originating first in the spirit. The t3 r pe refers to the 
prototype and vice versa. Human nature by phrenol- 
ogists has been designated a faculty and is said to oc- 
cupy a special place in the frontal brain, closely asso- 
ciated with the perceptions. It comprehends the per- 
ceptions in the outward sense or use of the word and 
is closely allied with the vision, the individuality, the 
ego or entity. The fact is that in human nature, in 
this broad sense, the first gleam of the more occult 
consciousness came, for here, as it were, the angel of 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 39 

the skies prepared the way for and opened the door to 
the mystic realm, of soul. In this department of mind 
the echo of the celestial voices first was heard and here 
the soul became aware, through both the subjective 
and objective form of spirit manifestations, of its own 
immortality-. Human nature, however, is not a faculty. 
It is a term that faintly designates that nature which is 
one with, nay, is the identical consciousness or ego which 
has to do with the material universe in its subjective and 
objective forms. Mark, there is a subjective and objec- 
tive side or character to both the spiritual and mater- 
ial universe, and, the spirit has to do with both in the 
sphere of consciousness. Objective refers to whatever 
belongs to ethereality or materiality and has to do 
with planes of inhabitation and expression, while sub- 
jective refers to spirituality and has to do with spheres 
of being or consciousness. Human nature is the 
extreme limit of consciousness, materially viewed, and 
is like consciousness duplex, so to speak, in its work- 
ings and character. Could you, as an illustration, 
conceive of a mirror that could reflect what is within 
and without its own reflecting power, you would then 
have an idea of the power of the mind in general and 
of human nature in particular, as subjectively and 
objectively understood. Here in the realm of human 
nature the soul reaches out for the definition of reality 
and here it derives, by so doing, the definition of con- 
sciousness. Here it employs all that is potent in clair- 
voyance and intuition and at the same time shapes the 
objective by the subjective realization. In plain words, 
it derives b\- and through human nature the ability 
which is latent in consciousness and is expressed in the 
office of human nature, to enter deeper and still deeper 



40 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

into the uses and purposes of both clairvoyance and 
intuition. So that it conies to pass, in the natural 
evolution of human nature, as phrenology will attest, 
that such as are well developed in it are naturally 
both highly intuitive and clairvoyant, that is, they can 
exercise the more occult faculty of perceiving. We 
should guard the student from accepting too broad an 
interpretation of even this statement, for we do not 
mean that one who simply acquires by seeing a knowl- 
edge of the world is to that degree more perceptive, 
but we mean that as observation leads to generaliza- 
tion, and as a knowledge of one fact to a synthesis of 
many facts, so the changes in the mind take place, as 
the law of human nature is fulfilled. Human nature 
is a possession and refers to a state of the conscious- 
ness. It cannot be acquired by any artificial "learning' ' 
or adaptability to environments, but, though latent 
and dormant in all, it must be evolved by the same 
law that rules clairvoyance and intuition. Some 
indeed, may be deficient in it but efficient in clairvoy- 
ance and intuition, but this deficiency is due to the fact 
that human nature has fulfilled its mission and has 
given place to what is higher and more absolute. This 
is and will be so as the human race evolves a higher 
and at the same time a more spiritual consciousness 
and civilization. Nature avoids excesses and utilizes 
vacuum. She has no use for and need of any super- 
fluity. Whatever in form has served its end in expres- 
sion, that she at once disintegrates and destroys. She 
adapts herself to the new conditions as spirit outworks 
the deeper and diviner consciousness. And as the end 
as well as tendency of evolution is toward synthesis 
or unity, from facts to truth, or from laws to law, so 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 41 

she hastens toward one in all her manifestation and 
expressions — one apotheosis. Means lead to ends and 
organism to consciousness in the idea of reality. 
Always, however, does reality in the conscious- 
ness dictate and outwork the end through the seeming- 
ly variety of forms. Thus, as human nature reaches the 
sphere of clairvoyance or intuition, it ceases to be potent 
as such and yields to the sphere of vision and capacity 
of spirit that it has attained. In other words, it 
becomes subject to a quicker and sublimer grade of 
vibrations and is impressed with a more instantaneous 
impingement of light from within, which gives it its 
vision and seemingly independent regnancy. Let it not 
be forgotten that all spirit in the unfold ment of all 
grades and spheres of seeing and perceiving passed 
through the geography of human nature. 

It is in no sense true that highly intuitive and clair- 
voyant natures are such by a special dispensation of 
Divine Providence. God is no respecter of persons 
and what is for one is for all and what is possessed or 
manifest by one can be and is to be manifested hy all. 
Thus the unchanging law holds all in its sphere of 
Divinit}\ The fact is, the races of mankind follow a 
geometrical ratio of progression, and in this ratio the 
unknown quantity is really the most known, should be 
the most understood. Jesus, Socrates, Appolonius, 
Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes, all were apparently un- 
known quantities in the geometrical order of progres- 
sion, for was it not said of them and as a proof of the 
saying were they not all persecuted and finally mar- 
tyred: "They came to their own and their own receiv- 
ed them not?" Yet they were the known quantities to 
the seers, to those whose eyes were opened; they were 



42 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

the day star of the new age and generation, upon 
whose works the civilization of the future outwove her 
fairest revelations. Indeed, because this is so, the 
Divinity and deathless ness of consciousness are assured. 
These faculties are but the inlets of the ocean that 
vibrates within the limitations of organism, bearing 
to these outward shores of life argosies freighted with 
the golden fruitage of Eden bowers and filled with the 
sunlight of the inspirations of the Light of the World. 
And each facility, as we designate it, ceases as such 
when the consciousness needs it no longer as an avenue 
for expression. Thus memory becomes an open book, 
in which the past, present and future can be read, 
when you have outgrown the use of it as defined by 
your prejudice of it. When you do not believe that it 
is allied thus to consciousness, when you limit it to 
the earth plane, when you make it and its office but a 
servant of your conscience and conciousness, then won- 
der not that the full potency and radiance of the all- 
seeing eye are denied you. 

Herein, then, lies the mystery of perception, that em- 
bodied in and utilized by human nature, it unfolds its 
power and sphere as human nature serves its end; but 
its law is the law for all that follows it in the domain 
of consciousness. 

Perception is the word which designates the more 
interior facult} r of seeing and has to do with realiza- 
tion. Human nature is the perception specialized, that 
is, embodied in a source of analysis based on observa- 
tion. To perceive anything is to utilize human nature. 
Here the spirit derives its susceptibility to conscious- 
ness in the sphere of evolution. Consciousness, as a 
quality of the soul, is a« eternal as spirit and is not 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 43 

produced by organism or the processes through which, 
the spirit becomes aware of it. But human nature and 
perception as thus used, the latter superceding the oth- 
er in the order of faculties, and the former being a 
basis of the development and realization of the latter, 
are very closely affinitized to clairvoyance and intuition. 
Both are more interior in the realm of consciousness 
or soul and both are realized at a certain degree in the 
development of consciousness. Never is either human 
nature or perception, in the mind or soul, free of the co- 
operation and action of clairvoyance, in this sense, but 
as all seeing is clairvoyant, so all perceiving is intui- 
tive in character. However, there are degrees in the 
realization of both clairvoyance and intuition, and we 
here refer to this degree. It is one and the same in 
all. Each soul attains it when it touches it in the 
mystic circle. As all who travel to the sea board can 
see the ocean, so all who arrive at this degree in the 
unfoldment of consciousness behold clairvoyantly and 
perceive intuitively the new and wondrous sea of 
light within them. 

We then are attempting no miracle when we send 
these Teachings to the world at this time, as the age 
is ready for them, as humanity is just emerging from 
the degree of human nature into the bright disk of the 
degree of clairvoyance and intuition and awaits this 
declaration of light. 

Clairvoyance is, then, the clearer seeing as intuition 
is the clearer perceiving of truth in the objective and 
subjective realms. They refer to a more lucid and un- 
folded consciousness of soul. They la}^ hold of deeper 
and diviner relations of things. They see the unchanging 
law making inner as well as outer circles and perceive it, 



44 CLAIR VO YANCE. 

in its operation within, as on matter, within spirit and 
in the forms and ideas of it. We have designated intui- 
tion Divine Inspiration in contradistinction to inspira- 
tion through mediumship by spirits excarnate. Clair- 
voyance is seeing clearer, that is, with a deeper ken or 
penetration, due to the unfolded consciousness and light 
from within, so intuition is perceiving, knowing or 
understanding, with a like ken or penetration, due 
to the same causes. And it is for each to know that 
consciousness is the door that leads to truth, love 
and God, the solvent of all error and evil, the source 
of all light and power and peace from within its own 
realm of being. And beyond this it is for man to 
realize that this power of seeing and perceiving are 
possible with all, and that they are possessions of 
spirit, to be unfolded and utilized. A correct study 
and analysis of human nature and its office will con- 
firm and affirm what we here teach and will lead to 
this realm where a clear definition of things can be 
had, because a higher knowledge can be received. 
Clairvoyance and intuition thus work in mutual re- 
ciprocity of sphere and aim, and lead the soul away 
from matter and the outward rays of light, away 
from reflections and shadows with all their entangle- 
ments, away from the quagmire of selfishness into the 
sphere of the eternal self, where the light of spirit amid 
the magnetic seas of luminiferous ethers brings the 
vision and perception into a more perfect harmony 
with Divinitv. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 45 



EXPERIMENT III. 

Do you realize any unfoldment of spirit as thus de- 
clared? 



46 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



LESSON IV. 

SPIRIT LIMITED IN MATTER. 

There is no question but that "matter" * as the word 
is generically understood means more than "material- 
ity." It is not merely the stuff out of which is woven 
or fashioned the spirit's form and tabernacle, but it 
bears a relation, both subtle and occult, to the spirit 
in the law and purpose of its life and expression. 
Were it an entity, as some sophists seem to believe, it 
would at once usurp the sphere and office of spirit, 
and in it would be found the intelligence that moves 
and governs the world; on the contrary, it is not the 
entity, but the form or mode of the entity's being, 
and as such it is forever subject to the law and limi- 
tations of the entity. The so-called elements of mat- 
ter which are regarded as tmchanging and unchange- 
able, are fixed in their chemical actions and affinities 
by the same law that manifests spirit, and while mat- 
ter is limited, spirit, by virtue of the unchanging law, 
is relatively limited. There are various degrees of 
limitation, in the order of expression; the word limita- 
tion is not to be given a literal but a spiritual inter- 

* From the Latin word "mater" the mother substance from 
which all forms are created. Theosophy teaches that the Akaska is 
the essence of life or substance, of which ether is the sublimated form. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 4,7 

pretation, and matter in the light of limitation must ev- 
er be referred to spirit. We maintain that the elements, 
as we view them, have a spiritual as well as a mater- 
ial signification, and as the one is related to the other 
in the integrity of being, so in the one is the law of 
the other. Matter as materiality is subject to mat- 
ter as ethereality, and if it be true, as chemistry alleg- 
es, that ether is the universal substance from which, 
as from a quarry, are mined the elements which com- 
pose the outward body of nature, differing from the 
crude only in the sense of sublimation, being governed 
by the same law, then the solvent of the bod} r of Na- 
ture is in ether. But what is ether? Here the chemis- 
try of earth is balked. It has no formula, tools or 
appliances for penetrating the mystery of ether. Its 
vibrations are subtler, more sublime and spiritual than 
those of light. Light can pass over and through ether 
without any apparent friction and without losing one 
degree of its quantity of force or momentum. It seems 
to be as a fixed mirror through which life's image can 
float without ripple or mar. And yet ethers respond 
to motion and vibrate by the same law that affects 
activity in all other planes and spheres of chemical 
or elementary forces. As a medium, it interpenetrates 
the interstices of all elements and is subject to con- 
ditions more inherent in itself and in spirit than m 
ethereality, one of its forms, or in matter, as mater- 
iality, a more basic or the base of all forms. But we 
hold that matter, in forms of materiality and eth- 
ereality, outflow from ether, and ether is the reflexion 
of entity. It has no existence per se. As time and 
space, which are alleged to be the properties of spirit, 
have no existence separable from spirit, as sweetness 



48 CLAIR VO YANCE. 

is a quality of essence, and has no existence in itself, so 
without reality etber would be unthinkable— it could 
have no existence. If this be true, then it follows 
that matter as illustrating ether also illustrates spirit, 
and in the material universe as in the spiritual uni- 
verse can be found the fabric of soul. This fabric is 
the soul's wardrobe which belongs to it as much as 
any of its faculties. Take, for instance, a spirit in its 
evolution. It first manifests itself in garments which 
are needful and harmoniously adapted to the state of 
consciousness which it expresses. Out of this state it 
weaves, so to speak, the subtle tissues that make up 
its material habiliments or vesture. These garments 
are its own, as this composite mass of matter, void 
and lifeless, so to speak, is its own, and having these 
elements allotted to it, by the law and integrity of being, 
the soul, expressing itself through them, in spheres and 
planes of involution and evolution, in the process to- 
ward the attainment of Divinity or apotheosis; it, 
with its form, according to the degree of consciousness 
it outworks, becomes gradually refined. The spirit 
has material as well as spiritual possessions, but not 
in the literal sense; it has property here as beyond in 
the skies. It has a right to all that its Divinity gives 
it, and no more and no less. And the beauty of the soul's 
apotheosis, in the thought of both the indestructibility 
and persistency of the material universe, as even the 
literalists teach, is in the fact of the preservation of 
its Divinity in all planes and spheres of expression. 
To possess anything is not to carry it with you in 
the form in which the possession is made apparent, 
but to really possess it, is to have it in the sense of 
the good that it affords and to take the good as a 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 49 

worthy collateral. So when you possess a body in a 
material form and forfeit it by death, having out- 
grown and outlived its use, a collateral of it is restor- 
ed to you in the form of the etheric or spiritual body. 

This spiritual body is the prototype, nay, the har- 
monical counterpart, or correspondent, in spirit type, 
of the material body; and this finer body, which the 
excarnate spirit employs, is no less a possession, is no 
less the fashion of its personality, is no less a type of 
what will follow in the evolution of the soul as the 
earth form. Indeed, what the spirit is to its conscious- 
ness in both planes of inhabitation, the body is to the 
soul. In the first body of the spirit is the idea of the 
fundamental a.nd ultimate personality. In the first 
body of the spirit, as in the last, are found the same 
elements, in different degrees of refinement and luminosi- 
ty. Organism is the soul's instrumentality and it must 
be interpreted, spiritually or psychically, to be fully ap- 
preciated and understood. And this organism of 
soul inheres in all forms of it, throughout the sphere 
of the soul's expression. Nay, more than this, it de- 
fines as it establishes the character of the tabernacle 
that the spirit inhabits. Always is the lower order or 
form of organism conditioned by organism absolutely, 
and always in this ratio of planes, one, two, three, and 
so on; following like spheres of consciousness in the 
development of the soul, does organism reach the final 
type. 

Elements as ethers in forms, both material and spir- 
itual, belong to the spirit and they are the spirit's 
property for reaching expression through manifesta- 
tion. There is no more matter in crude than in fine, 
as there are no more ethers than souls to utilize them 



50 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

in the celestial life. For every spirit there is so much 
matter, and this matter is its property, and belongs 
to it forever. Upon this fact in the law of soul is 
established the science of Psychometry. This matter 
is referable to the soul and to the soul's type of per- 
sonality, so that each soul attracts to it its own 
elements. It never holds in its sphere of Divinity, 
although it may utilize, elements that belong to other 
souls. It can only use what the type of personality 
needs, and we might go so far as to say that every 
element has its psychic attractions and repulsions. 
Consciousness is the law of the organization of the 
form. This being so, the dream of life in matter brings its 
own interpretation. All elements tend toward psychic 
centers of attraction and repulsion. Polarity in one ele- 
ment moves toward alike polarity in the soul. Thus na- 
ture maintains an inerrant equilibrium and thus the 
balance is out-stretched in all forms of life. The bal- 
ance is the symbol of Divinity. It sits enthroned in 
mathematics which is the formula of the Cosmos. It 
rules the consciousness in its attractions and repul- 
sions and it ordinates the ratios of planes and spheres. 
It makes the shadow alternate with sunshine, and in 
the balance, birth and death weigh expressions of life 
unendingly; so that the body of the entity may be 
designated the symbol of the soul's expression, and 
interprets the sphere of the soul's apotheosis. 

The body, is, plainly speaking, the condition of con- 
consciousness which is the state of the soul. Here is 
received and impressed the image, both human and 
divine. Here in materiality, the soul reaches the light 
of life, the impulse from Divinity, the inspiration of 
the God Principle, and here it outworks, in the lab- 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 51 

oratory of Nature, the personality in the light of the 
unchanging law. The body as a condition, is and must 
always and necessarily be, the reflex of the mind, the 
state of the consciousness of soul. In it in crude 
form is all that can and will be evolved. It is a photo- 
graph of a more interior and divine negative or image 
of soul; negative, because and when spiritualized, pos- 
tive because and when materialized. Yet in the condi- 
tion as is illustrated by the body is the law of the 
state of consciousness of soul as is illustrated by the 
mind. 

Thus spirit is limited in matter and every 
faculty of spirit is thus circumscribed. This being so, 
it follows that the unfoldment of the spiritual percep- 
tions is limited by this state of the consciousness, and 
that the body, in organism, leads to this inference. 
Consciousness is the symbol of the deific vision that 
knows neither the limitation of time nor space, 
perceives without seeing and is as the All Seeing Eye. 
And as there is involved in consciousness the need of 
light, both as materially and spiritually understood, 
it follows that "knowledge through the senses" and 
"wisdom through the perceptions" are the inductive 
and deductive methods of its illumination. The vision 
of a mortal is limited by the natural conditions im- 
posed upon it. So, also, is the vision of a spirit ex- 
carnate limited and in like manner. Not only is this 
true, but it follows, that where the vision of a mortal 
and immortal is limited by the same state of con- 
sciousness, all other conditions being equal, both are 
limited in their spheres of clairvoyance. The spirit 
cannot transcend the visual ray nor the clairvoyant 
penetration of a mortal, nor vice versa. But let it 



52 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

not be overlooked that not every such mortal utilizes 
or expresses to the fullest degree, his clairvoyance. 
And this may be likewise true of the spirit^ But no 
degree of clairvoyance is denied a mortal, except that 
which is limited by the expression. As the expression 
is the all important end to be outwrought, the clair- 
voyance follows its order of development. 

All who are clairvoyant illustrate this aim or peculiar- 
itj r . The knowledge which is a mortal's possession by 
intuition or inspiration is his as well when commu 
nicated by excarnate spirits. As a river cannot rise 
higher than its source, so consciousness cannot bring a 
knowledge beyond the natural perception of the spirit. 
Thus, what is received inspirationally under the guid- 
ance of the spirit can be received through intuition 
or the spiritual perceptions; and always is the former 
revelation one with the latter, according to the 
above principle. Thus, in the realm of cause and 
effect, a mortal follows an absolute law, the process of 
seeing and perceiving being one in all in harmonial 
spheres of consciousness. 

That some organisms are specially adapted to the 
extensive exercise of clairvoyance does not, in any 
sense, disprove what is here affirmed. Mission is the 
purpose that souls fulfill and it refers to an adapta- 
bility to the end for which the person is called or sent. 
All have missions adapted to their peculiar sphere and 
plane of life, which are natural and divine. As seers 
or teachers, they are no more divine than common 
humanity. They, by virtue of their peculiar organism, 
which reflects a state of consciousness that evokes the 
office and mission of their work, find their place in life 
and become an heirophant or Avatar of a new age or 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 53 

a new dispensation. And these beings are as likely to 
be called forth from the hovel as the palace, provided 
the spirit is prepared for the mission. Preparation is 
the all important qualification or prerequisite. None 
who have in them the aspiration for this clairvoyance 
should while away the hours in idle dreaming, but 
rationally and systematically unfold the spirit in this 
direction. No state of mind is fixed, for the expression 
of each age or cycle is so wonderful, comprehensive 
and universal, that the spiritual perceptions can be 
quickened and illuminated beyond all extravagant 
imagining. If the object of development be to see and 
perceive, not only by means of mediumship, but 
through intuition and the mental establishment, then 
success will be the fruition of patient effort. The 
limitations of nature are placed upon the ignorant 
and worldly or those who are wise in their own con- 
ceit, but the aspiring and trusting spirit, who ap- 
proaches the light of inspiration, which is the light of 
clairvoyance, as a child, will not be denied access to 
the realms within or on high. Into the life of such 
the light of truth shines, that having eyes they may 
see and having ears they may hear, and having hearts 
they may understand what the spirit will declare to 
them. Aspire and toil for this surpassing light and 
the dawn of Nirvana will break through the inward 
window of the soul and bring, in its radiant light, a 
spiritual and clairvoyant vision both deep and divine, 
a revelation of symbols and spirit, of forms and 
realitv. 



54 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



EXPERIMENT IV. 

Fix your mind on a five-pointed star, and watch it 
in its kaleidoscope of colors and observe what takes 
place back of it. Observe this closely. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 55 



LESSON V. 

THE SCIENCE OF OPTICS 

Materially and Spiritually Considered. 

The science of optics is not only the science of light 
but of seeing, as these words are both materially and 
spiritually understood. As the science of light is un- 
derstood in relation to its phenomena, as its nature 
and source are still matters of conjecture and specula- 
tion, very little credence can or must be attached to 
the deductions of the natural philosopher. True, 
his doctrines and inferences are worthy of consider- 
ation and should be examined in the light of facts and 
reason, but no time-honored doctrine, no superstition 
of science, whether accepted by the generality of men 
of science or not, should have the precedence over the 
truth. There is no form of science, in any of the many 
departments of knowledge, which is not temporal in 
its inductions, and, hence, which does not illustrate 
relations. Forms or systems of truth change as the 
type of involution becomes a type of evolution. Forms 
serve the spirit of life and the thought of spirit; and 
in the progressive scale, a graduated form adapts it- 
self to an unfolding thought, mind and spirit. Thus 
civilization is the unique illustration and achievement 



56 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

of progressive forms of life and these forms follow 
and obey the ratio of expressions that the soul ful- 
fills in the life which is manifest in them. Thus, 
while one form has in it and reveals through it thought 
adapted to the spirit in its expression, yet it must not 
be received as a final type of the Logos. It should not 
become the fixed standard of measurement. It should 
not be regarded as eternal and absolute, but, serving the 
purpose which it fulfills and the age in which it man- 
ifests, it should foreshadow and protypify the succes- 
sive and preceding forms of thought. There is a rela- 
tive and an absolute type of thought. The former is 
the manifestation, the latter is the Logos or the will 
of God. Toward the fulfillment of the Logos, spirit, 
by means of unfoldment, in involution and evolution, 
is tending; this is the meaning of embodiment or 
incarnation, as it is the aim and signification of all 
re-embodiment, when a necessit} r . We do not imply 
that the science of 1800 B. C. or that of 1900 A. D. 
is not one in aim and sphere of form or definition, 
but we hold that in the thought of the mystic num- 
ber one, illustrating the totality of all knowledge in 
its fractions and combinations, all that proceeds from 
it is subject to it, and that the relative can never be 
as final as the absolute, or as infallible as the 
truth itself. The evolution which is subject to the law 
of involution is always less than it, never greater, on 
the same ground that soul is greater than body, 
through which it operates. The word greater must 
here be given not a literal or comparative, but a 
spiritual definition. Thus, whatever science has reveal- 
ed or achieved, whatever and however much we may 
know or perceive of the Logos, or the unchanging 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 57 

law, the Logos or law is greater than our knowledge, 
and by the fatality of our expression, the limitations 
of our understanding and perceptions, it dictates and 
leads us into the higher spheres of its presence. Be it 
so that science is one forever, because between knowl- 
edge and facts there can be no discrepancy, yet the 
circle shows an infinite relativity of configuration of 
souls, the degrees in each circle of expression, both 
materially and spiritually aspect ed, making a circle 
within the greater, the lesser one being subject to the 
law of the greater, and fulfilling a unity of design and 
purpose in both, truth ruling at the center of each 
and balancing all in one uniform and perfect motion 
or rhythm. Axioms are the postulates of science as 
materially considered, and in them are found, as upon 
them are built, the facts of the spirit's corresponden- 
ces. Whatever science, through the human understand- 
ing, has discovered to be, that no age or generation 
outlives; but the relative is ever taking on and reveal- 
ing the thought of the absolute, the Logos. Truth is 
ever absolute. Facts may change their plan of mani- 
festation, but they never change their purpose, which 
is to manifest truth. One series of facts may be fol- 
lowed by another series in any one department of life, 
in biology, geology or chemistry, yet each bears an in- 
tegral relation to the other, in sphere and plane of 
purpose and manifestation, and the unity of the order, 
in arithmetical progression, is never destroyed. Ever 
does it reveal immutable law. Thus, the science of 
optics will suffer naught through additional reveal- 
ments, for with facts as its collateral it must establish 
itself upon what is axiomatic or self-evident. 

What, then, if we should teach that the Dotencv of 



58 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

light is in its spirituality and not materiality, and that 
the eye is not the seat of its recognition as the brain is 
not the source of its sensation? What if we should 
declare that without the spirit the light from without 
would be darkness to the brain? What if, after exam- 
ining the claims of the materialist, we should affirm 
that the spirit, through its own light, parallels in ma- 
teriality, nay, interblends, by a process beyond the 
analysis or understanding of man, its rays of light 
with the affitiitizing rays of the sun, so that there is a 
sphere of light formed, in which the soul manifestly 
exists? What if we should affirm that these spheres 
are spiral, radiant and transparent, in which con- 
sciousness is revealed and unfoldment is outworked 
from within essence? What if, at last, we should de- 
clare that each soul has its spheres of darkness and 
light, as well as its spheres of light and darkness, that 
have been utilized and exist only in the forms of con- 
sciousness, that have been fulfilled, but which are om- 
nipresent? This is the purpose of this lesson. 

The spirit is the absolute source of light. It has its 
own light, which is as many times more radiant and 
clearer than the sunlight as it is more luminous than 
its negative, the contrasting darkness. It is the light 
of essence, of being, of love. It is deific in luminosity, 
differing manifestly only in degree. The quality is one. 
This light is colorless, but is, in the chemistry and me- 
dia of form, through prisms and the spectrum analysis, 
of seven colors, or three, in four complementary forms 
making a uniform octave. These colors are red, yel- 
low * and blue, making the complement of four, orange, 

* Green is alleged by recent science to be a primary color or one 
of the three primates of which red and blue are the other two. By 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 59 

green, indigo, violet, and the seven in all. A perfect 
and proportionate interfusion of the three or the sev- 
en will produce the white, more or less pure as the 
colors and media are pure. As spirit is indefinable in 
form, so light is so in color. None of the seven colors 
or the three can truly define it. It is capable of re- 
frangibility, but it, in itself, defies analysis. Thought 
has a like composition and is capable in the spiritual 
prisms of a like refrangibility, so that there are those 
teachers among us who hold that thought is light. 
As there is no light without thought and no thought 
without light, there is some ground for their inferences. 
We, however, hold that light is a quality of thought 
but is not thought. It is its atmosphere, potent and 
radiant as the thought is for good, but quite the re- 
verse if for evil. All thought has its sphere of light 
and hence its degree of radiation. It interblends with 
like rays from all psychic centers. It correlates itself 
by an integrity or law of spheres to thought in all 
planes, and in uniform degrees of vibration. Material 
light, so called, is thus affined to spiritual light, with 
this difference in souls, that the particular ra\ r is to 
the general what the general is to the particular; in 
plain words, one soul is to another soul in sphere and 
plane what one (i) sphere is to one (i) plane of souls. 
As the Sun is the source of material light and spirit is 
the source of spiritual light, souls live and move and 
have their being in both by an order and ratio of 
spheres and planes which are mathematically correlat- 
ed and exact in both the material and spiritual uni- 

occultists, yellow, however, will always be the neutral tint or me- 
diant between red and black on the objective and blue and white 
on the subjective side of the mystic spectrum. 



60 CLAIR VO YANCE. 

verse. The outward ray that reaches the sensory 
responds to the inward ray that correlates itself to it, 
and when the fusion or union is formed, the sensation 
of light and thought is apprehended and defined. 

Perception folio ws a deeper light, and while it is sub- 
ject to the same law, yet it is more interior and mystic 
in its operations. It works through lenses and appara- 
tus that are so refined and spiritualized that no ade- 
quate conception of them can be formed or a definition 
or illustration given in the language of earth. The eye, 
the organ of vision and sense of sight form the cabi- 
net where the forces, in the laboratory of spirit, are 
gathered and concentrated and where visions of things 
are "made up." Here the ego or spirit through the 
medium of the sense acts as a cabinet chemist, and, 
connecting the psychic with the material ray of light 
that enters the pupil of the eye, the outward curtain, 
through which the light enters, by the principle of ex- 
pansion or contraction, the pupil becoming contracted 
when the light is strong, and expanded when w r eak, 
forms the necessary image or definition of the object 
that is conveyed on the outward ray. The retina of 
the e\ T e is the outer cabinet, a camera obscura, or a 
darkened chamber, where the outward or material 
rays are married to the spiritual rays from within. 
This retina or camera obscura is dark, not in the 
spiritual but the material sense, and for the same pur- 
pose that the matrices for physical manifestations are 
more or less darkened. The retina thus becomes neg- 
ative to the positive, as the positive becomes negative 
to the rays of correlated light. 

The womb of life in all forms of organism is construct- 
ed on and operated by the same principle. Wherever 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 61 

generation of life forms or thought is to take place, the 
process is one and the same, the differentiation being in 
mode or process, not in principle. Darkness is a con- 
dition for generation. Life entering forms follows the 
same law that controls life entering thought spheres. 
Each spirit is born and reborn in this sense, from 
plane and sphere to plane and sphere. 

Here in the retina, the light of the spirit reaches the 
rays of light through the eye and from the out- 
ward sun, and they are not absorbed here, but rather 
they are fashioned into the form that is conveyed by 
the thought of the ray from within. * The sense or 
sensory is the medium of translation. Here the form 
is given its spiritual type, its idea. And the signifi- 
cance of this is in the fact that only those outward 
forms are sensed that are received. Forms may be 
seen but not perceived, as we have elsewhere shown. 
The spirit operates in this way, that the forms or 
definitions of outward things in the light of thought 
may be received. Afterward, as the inspiration dic- 
tates, as the self is prepared to realize the materiality 

* Three powers or mental functions of spirit are grossly misunder- 
stood and vaguely defined by popular schools of psychology, viz.: 
Ideality, sublimity and imagination. It will be found by deep 
meditation that imagination and ideality are very closely related, 
objectively to reason and memory and subjectively to conscience 
and intuition; imagination is the seat of the image or form, where 
art gathers her inspiration and in occultism where matter is first 
impressed with outer physical appearances or shapes. Ideality is 
the seat of the idea or Logos where intellect and consciousness 
derive their causality and polarization through thought. Sublim- 
ity is a process of spiritualization and is made the means by which 
the mind and its contents are purified through the will. How im- 
portant these functions are to spiritual unfoldment and in relation 
to the perception, clairvoyance and intuition can at once be under- 
stood. 



62 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

of the outward rays in the light of their spirituality, 
the perceptions are used and the ideas become realiza- 
tions. And when this occurs, Nature will not repeat 
the phenomena. When one degree of the state of con- 
sciousness is attained the consciousness passes toward 
the next and so on, until that phase of its expression 
is fulfilled. Then in the loom of soul the pattern makes 
a shift, the warp and woof silently await the action 
of the shuttle in its forward and backward move- 
ments, while consciousness receives the rays of light 
from within and without, which, when sensed and 
perceived, embody the purpose of the design. Each 
sense acts in this , order and leads to this end. The 
brain is the central office where all the organs are 
acting in accord with the law of spirit. 

The sense acts in perfect harmony with the organ, 
and as the medium between the brain and sensory it 
fulfills the office of the spirit, by connecting and trans- 
lating by means of its mechanism the rays of correlat- 
ed light. Strangely true is it that in both rays thought 
is conveyed, and most strangely true is it that an 
identical thought is revealed. The mind and brain act 
in unison with the spirit, and in the circle of these 
rays of light and thought all sensation as well as all 
definition of things, so far as the consciousness and 
perception of the spirit are concerned, are obtained. 
Thus the outward material ray is a hemisphere, and 
with the inward, spiritual ray makes a sphere or circle. 
You can become aware of this if you choose to ana- 
lyze thought as vision and vision as thought from 
center to circumference. Errors are made when the 
connection is not perfect, through disharmonious and 
incongruous organic and psychic conditions. But the 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 63 

law of truth is also the law of error. 

We maintain, then, that the real source of light and 
vision, as of sensation and thought, is in spirit, and 
that there is the provision for definition, perception, 
demonstration and realization. Thought is both pos- 
itive and negative as materially and spiritually viewed. 
To spirit excarnate it is positive, as to spirit incarnate 
it is negative, and vice versa. To the outward mind 
of spirit, material light is positive, while to spirit ex- 
carnate it is negative. So in the divine, organic and 
psychic arrangement, spirit, in the formation of 
thought, generates it where the outward light is neg- 
atived by the spiritual light, which is positive, and, by 
such chemistry as is apposite in polarity and plane of 
operation from material chemistry, being subjective 
rather than objective, it developes material rays of 
light and all that is potent in them into the spiritual 
forms, so that they may be seen or manifested in con- 
sciousness. The mind is the field of the seance cham- 
ber, where the spirit reveals its formations or visions 
of ideas. And sometimes its forms or visions are crude, 
as the brain, mind and outward media are harmoniz- 
ed with the thought that is to be embodied. For 
every spiritual ray of light from psychic realms, or for 
every thought, there is a material counterpart in the 
sphere of material light. There are no more rays of 
material than rays of spiritual light. Thus the unit}- 
and integrity of the cosmos are maintained amid a 
seeming chaos and confusion. All is law, order and 
harmony, even error and evil fulfilling the law of spirit. 

The science of optics has this material and spiritual 
signification, and it is within the province of science to 
demonstrate these facts which we have here declared. 



64 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



FIFTH EXPERIMENT. 

If this be true, is it not as easy to see and perceive 
spiritual things as material, and if so, why then is not 
clairvoyance the gateway leading to the skies? Allow 
the spirit to gather up the rays of light which convey 
the visions celestial; observe and analyze what you 
perceive. Concentrate on the spirit and shut out from 
the mind and the eyes the solar rays of light. The 
mind will become the sphere for the revelation of won- 
drous scenes and beings from the spirit world. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 65 



LESSON VI. 

VIBRATIONS. 

Their Law in Relation to Light and Sight. 

There is no question but that the science or law of 
vibration underlies the whole structure or organism 
of spirit. Whatever is potent in the universe expresses 
the action of spirit. Mankind are creatures of this 
law and with life and its myriad of forms share its 
regnancy and operation. This law is one with the 
unchanging law, to which we so often refer, and is a 
mode both of its action and interpretation. If we 
should affirm that the nature of the unchanging law 
is the law or mode of vibration, we doubtless should 
not be misunderstood, for the action of the unchang- 
ing law, however various and entangled in the meshes 
of planes and spheres, is the corollary of its vibration. 
Vibration is pulsation, movement, action, as may be 
illustrated in the lungs or heart or crudely in the deli- 
cate spring of a watch. It is the reiteration of force 
from one center of radiation to another, where action 
and reaction may be equal or unequal. In momentum 
or intensity, vibration presupposes a center of radia- 
tion, from which it derives its momentum. Each es- 
sence in itself, as well as in its form, has such center 



66 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

of vibration, and while it is not apparent or under- 
stood, yet is it the cause of all that is designated the 
phenomena of life. There is what is called mechanical 
or dynamic and psychic vibration and the former is 
under the government of the latter. Vibration is the 
exponent or interpretation of exact science, of mathe- 
matics. It is in every plane and sphere of manifesta- 
tion or operation the exact formula of the unchanging 
law. It is not senseless or unintelligent motion, but 
is the effect of cause, as intelligent as it is eternal. 
The trend of modern science bears happily upon this 
System of Teaching. The tendency of materialism has 
been to divorce the dynamic from the psychic or spirit- 
ual causality on the ground that spirit is not existent 
as an essence or entity, and to trace in the program 
uniform causation as is illustrated in material physics, 
chemistry and biology the steps that lead to mind and 
spirit. And spirit thus became an evolution of matter 
and the product of it, always less and never greater 
than the elements and forces that evolved it. But the 
facts of Spiritualism, both in the ancient and modern 
world, and the universal prevalence of the phenomena 
of clairvoyance, hypnotism, telepathy and magic of all 
kinds (not legerdemain) have turned the tide of thought 
to a more radical and opposite statement and inter- 
pretation of life. No one who is at all informed upon 
the subject denies that the phenomena of matter and 
force are under the government of law, but there is a 
various interpretation or definition of law. Scientists 
of the most ultra sort have been loath to make law 
and intelligence identical and they have been equally 
indisposed to externalize law. They have called it a 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 67 

process, a mode of action inherent in and indigenous 
to matter, and even where it seemed necessary for them 
to attribute to it at least the element of wisdom they 
have disposed of the difficulty by designating the pro- 
cess "evolution," making this word cover and explain 
all doubts and answer all difficulties. It is not to be 
denied but that this last resort is the confession of the 
weakness of their position and the triumph of the 
metaplrysician. It is the fin de siecle of modern scien- 
tific research and it means ever\'thing for the Spirit- 
ualist. For though the spiritualist does not confound 
law with intelligence, he makes law the mode of intel- 
ligence and thus is not driven to extreme and erro- 
neous assumptions to acconnt for the facts. We teach 
that as the unchanging law is the mode of spirit, nat- 
ural and spiritual law or law that concerns spirit em- 
bodied and spirit disembodied, in materiality and 
ethereality respectively, are some of the phases of its 
manifestation in the material and spiritual universe. 
The law is the same as a unit of radiation. The so- 
called forces, as electricity and magnetism, are not 
laws, but conditions of matter, and they exhibit the 
action of the unchanging law in their respective spheres 
or planes. Of course, it must be remembered that the 
entity, whatever may be its name, is the source of in- 
telligence, the seat of law, the center of all radiation; 
and the material forms and phenomena of life act 
obediently to the vibrations or radiations of the entity 
as here declared. Should you examine the vibrations 
of hydrogen or nitrogen, you will find that they are 
manifestly different, (see tables of the vibration of 
gases) each after its kind, because each element, so 
called, as a point of motion or radiation, depends upon 



68 CLAIRVOYANCE, 

first, the unchanging law for its vibration, as also it 
reflects and refracts the force and radiation given to 
it. Nay, more than this, the sphere of Nature may be 
likened to a body literally circumscribed and permeated 
by the unchanging law, where every atom or the phe- 
nomena of life, even life itself, is the illustration and 
exponent of the law. Let us not be misunderstood. 
The law is the mode of the intelligence and illustrates 
it. Conscience and consciousness both obey the un- 
changing law, but for the entity the law is potent in 
all planes, and spheres of action. The law never 
changes its purpose. That purpose is fixed and abso- 
lute and destinates life in the form. The law as the 
mode of the essence or spirit, mind, life, of the much 
abused words, consciousness and conscience, ordains 
and governs the planes of manifestation and expression. 
In other words, the ascent of life is ever toward the 
perception and realization of the unchanging law. It 
has a lesson for each plane and sphere of life and these 
lead to higher interpretations and deeper understand- 
ings of the unchanging law. The integrity of the law 
is maintained forever and ever. A child is still soul 
and is still under the government of the unchanging 
law after it has outgrown or used the lessons of child- 
hood. One sphere or more spheres of consciousness do 
not exhaust the resources nor fulfill the purpose of this 
law. The mode may have a variety of spheres of dif- 
ferentiation and yet be uniformly one in purpose and 
inclination. Light absolute is one in quality though it 
has an apparently infinite differentiation. The ray of 
light is one on the surface of the sun or earth or 
through the media or prisms of ether. It loses naught 
of its potency or mission by vibration. Its mission is 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 69 

to vibrate at a uniform rate, always the same mathe- 
matically. So, the unchanging law is both absolute 
and relative in action and it is the spectrum where all 
life centers and radiates. This being so, as Nature in 
her manifestations and expressions of life evidences, we 
have a key to the solution of the problem of clairvoy- 
ance. Light obeys the unchanging law in every plane 
and sphere of consciousness. Consciousness fixes the 
radiation or vibrations of light spiritual and material. 
In exact mathematical numbers the vibration of light, in 
corresponding planes and spheres of consciousness, 
cannot here be stated, but suffice it to say that the 
consciousness through the brain radiates in exact har- 
mony with the outward ray that weds itself to the in- 
ward ray through the action of the spirit. And these 
rays serve their purpose according to the principle of 
reflection and refraction. * The eye and the brain, 
acting in harmony with the soul through the mind 
and spirit, receive the outward rays, not in their orig- 
inal intensity, but by the process and in the form of 
radiation and in the psychic as well as the organic ap- 
paratus, this interblending of the material and spirit- 
ual rays of light is effected. By means of this mystic 
process, the necessary vibrations of light are conformed 
to the spiritual vibrations and all ratios are fixed by 
the state of the soul which is to be outworked and 
fulfilled. Angles of declination and inclination play an 
important part in this process. Thus darkness serves 
its purpose as a mode of light where the vibrations 
are the least potent for spirituality but the most 
potent for materiality. Thus evil and error are words 

* A table of color vibrations and their psychic significances can 
be found in the book on "Colors and Auras" by the author. 



70 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

which, when philosophically interpreted, are full of 
meaning and Divinity. Thus we find the angle of least 
inclination to the unchanging law where the lowest 
order of intelligence and spirituality obtain and accord- 
ing to the species or flora or any other rational classi- 
fication the state of the soul follows the same angle 
of ascension which, in the mystic square, as here in 
the mystic circle, designates the approach to the Light 
of the World and Soul. Thus mathematics serves soul, 
while soul follows an unerring principle of geometry. 

You see only what you perceive, in both a material 
and spiritual sense. The key to seeing is also the key to 
perceiving. The higher the rate of vibrations which you 
can command the greater will be your spiritual light. 
Intense rays of light, as the red, are not as potent as 
the more electrical, the blue, purple and indigo. The 
The finer colors are significant of the finer vibrations, 
the coarser of the crude. Thus the grade of one's con- 
sciousness, which is the light of the soul, is determined 
by one's spirituality. The finer and purer the life the 
closer affinitized one is with the thought spheres of 
angels. Spirits and angels live and move and have 
their being in these spheres, that are as fixed as the 
unchanging law. These spheres represent as they illus- 
trate mathematical numbers and uniform ratios of vi- 
brations. The ratio of absolute positive vibrations is 
as the absolute positive sphere of harmony. It is the 
sphere of the apotheosis. The absolute negative sphere 
is its antithesis, symbol of night, darkness, death. 
The two harmonize at a center of polarity, which is 
the center of radiation. In all planes and spheres, the 
light and darkness alternate by the sacred sign of 
Libra, the scales or balance. Libra rules the heart, 



CLAIRVOYANCE, 71 

spiritually, rules in love. Interlinear rays of light form 
the spectrum of the soul's life and Divinity where it 
attains access to the holy flame of love, white and 
pure within the Holy of Holies. By traveling to the 
East from the West, to the Light from Darkness, to Spir- 
ituality from Materiality, to consciousness from birth 
and rebirth in matter, you make the straight line, 
symbol of Divinity, of one, of eternity, harmony, God. 
At every point of the circle of spiritual light, as it 
blends with the circle of material light, the unchanging 
law reigns, and through the angles of relation to light 
the soul attains its state of Divinity and enters the 
aureole of its own mystic light of love. But the path 
is one of love unto love, by the process designated 
spirituality. 



72 CLAIRVOYANCE, 



SIXTH EXPERIMENT. 

Write inspirationally what the spirit gives yoti on 
the theme ' 'Light and Spirituality.' ' 

To prepare conditions for this experiment become 
very quiet and passive and then concentrate by aspir- 
ation upon Divinity. As you receive the light of in- 
spiration perceive the thought which is immanent. Be 
not baffled by failure but insist upon the success of it 
by patient, persistent and conscientious effort* 



CLAIRVOYANCE, 73 



LESSON VIL 

SPIRIT IN RELATION TO TIME AND SPACE. 

The Sphere and Office of Matter* 

There is no question but that there is a profound 
philosophy underlying the speculations of the scientist 
and metaphysician concerning time and space. We 
know that these two words, though much abused, 
hold in them the apparent limit of consciousness. Ter- 
minology is not to be received as nor construed to 
be the formula or statement of consciousness. Lit- 
erature, like mathematics, has an esoteric as 
well as an exoteric signification; but words are the 
vehicles of thought, the clothing of ideas, which 
no more define thought in its spirituality than 
a suit of clothes defines man. There is a remote 
relation between them, but as a shadow cannot de- 
fine the light which makes it, neither should words be 
taken as absolute interpretations of the thoughts 
which they clothe. Words must be given a spiritual and 
a material definition. More than this, words must be 
given "the exact meaning which the mind that uses 
them wishes to have conveyed, and as there is in this 
respect a general and particular use, both in the mater- 
ial and spiritual sense, caution should be taken lest 



74 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

the one meaning be confused with the other or lest 
ambiguity be accepted for perspicuity. The real mas- 
ters of form see to it that spirit defines the form, not 
that the form defines the spirit. This, indeed, is perfect 
art. Thus the words time and space, have suffered 
because of multiform definition, yet they are conspic- 
uous in philosophy as words that convey a different 
meaning to different minds. When, for instance, you 
literalize time and space, you make them co-extensive 
with matter, and as matter is co-extensive with spirit 
both give to the words what is implied in the quality 
of both. Matter is supposed to have three dimensions 
length, breadth and thickness while spirit is illimitable 
by finality or finiteness, words which signify an end 
to time and space. The confusion at once arises when 
an attempt is made to use the formula as here set 
forth. It is then allowed that time and space are 
illimitable. Yet all this is irreconcilable with the 
words as materially interpreted. Time is a definite 
concept, as the Greek word temno illustrates, while 
space is no less concrete. Yet when applied to mat- 
ter, they seem to fix the plane of its action, and yet 
when applied to spirit, they seem to convey an entirely 
different impression. The cause of this we shall here 
attempt to explain. 

Spirit is fated in spheres of action. These spheres 
operate in corresponding planes, which are designated 
by the word matter. Matter as the composition or 
chemical base of these planes is spirit in a crude form. 
All elements, as we have elsewhere taught, are spirit- 
ual in their affinities, that is, they are repelled by and 
attracted to psychic polarities or centers. They have 
no absolute existence. They have no being per se or 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 75 

outside of spirit. They are in fine and in crude one 
and the same in spirit. Spirit possesses them and 
they manifest in the material plane through the spec- 
trum or medium of consciousness, not as an entity or 
a composition of entities, but as the veritable form of 
the spirit, spirit having in itself the unit or primate 
of the kaleidoscope of these elements. Thus whatever 
may compose the elements or organism of the body 
as the unchanging law controls the forms which ap- 
pear in a sphere and plane of uniform vibration. 
Matter in reality is but a mode of motion, fixed by 
the unchanging law of spirit. This is why all elements 
have their uniform attractions and repulsions, as well 
as their analogous polarities. This is also why you will 
find on all suns and in their systems the polarity 
which regulates the centrifugal and centripetal forces, 
and makes them but an axis on which revolves the orbs 
and motions of the galaxies. The polarity itself is 
fixed by the unchanging law. 

Thus in a plane or sphere of spirit, say number one 
(i), a certain grade of vibrations obtains, and in them 
spirit operates accordingly, displaying its phenomena 
and revealing its expression, all the alleged elements 
that play in its mystic kaleidoscope conforming to the 
polarity of spirit, which centers its axis on uniform 
polarities of similars. By similars we mean modes of 
motion which foreshadow in a uniform ratio of devel- 
opment an analogous form of motion, but under a 
higher rate of vibration. Thus hydrogen, oxygen, 
nitrogen, each and all have their ultimates in spirit. 
They are prototypes of a type absolute. Thus matter 
seems to be and is fated in conditions of time and 
space, both having to do with modes of the motion of 



76 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

spirit. The mystic circle of time and space has been 
likened to a circle containing 360 degrees, the degrees 
in space and in time corresponding exactly, the vibra- 
tion in any sphere or analogous plane covering the 
circle in uniform time. In other and plain words, it 
takes so long to go so far in this circle of 360 degrees. 
One rate of vibration may be slower or more rapid than 
another, but the polarity of the lower is conditioned 
by that of the higher and acts in perfect rhythm with 
it. Over, beneath and through all these spheres and 
corresponding planes of vibration one unchanging law 
rules. Thus time and space are relative terms and 
must be so interpreted, and they must not be made the 
formula of the soul of the Cosmos. 

Time and space are words that refer to spheres and 
planes of psychic action and hence to modes of the 
soul's life or being. Chiefly they have to do with 
materiality and are not recognized in the calendar of 
spirit. Thought and action expressed in spirituality 
govern all concepts of eternity and show their spirit- 
ual signification in the higher life. No time or space 
is there in the material sense, action and its fruition as 
applied to space by geometry and in time by algebra, 
implying spiritual expressions, correspondences and 
affinities. That is, whereas here the spirit is subordi- 
nated to the natural, in spirit, the natural is subordi- 
nated to the spiritual law. The difference is one of 
correspondency but not one of opposition. Thus time 
and space are not literalized but spiritualized, in spirit 
they are universalized. 

The office or sphere of matter is to bring the soul 
through these multiplied changes, all fixed by the un- 
changing law, through a uniform process of evolution 



CLAIR VO YANCE. 77 

into the aim of the involution, which is the apotheosis. 
We are not concerned with final causes, but with the 
mission of the facts of life, which are the collaterals of 
truth, the exponent of the lav/ of being. We are not 
concerned with the reason but the cause for all this 
arrangement and from the a priori of view it is evi- 
dent that matter serves soul in its evolution. It is the 
basic mode of manifestations and expressions and by 
its own rates of vibration serves the soul in its vari- 
ous and uniform states of consciousness. However, 
the end is outworked as the spheres and planes are 
ever maintained in one perfect correlation and integ- 
rity. Spirit is only subordinate to this or that mode, 
when a state of soul reaches its perfection through it. 
Never can number one (i) grade of matter hold a soul 
that lives and moves and has its being in number two 
(2) grade. And so on through the mathematical series in 
the rhymic and mystic scale of being. 

Strive then for the purity of spheres where spirit re- 
sponds to finer grades of motiou in matter and the 
consciousness will become the spectrum through which 
the light of lights will stream and bring its own spir- 
ituelle kaleidoscope. 



78 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



SEVENTH EXPERIMENT. 

Do you sense a slow or rapid vibration by holding 
this name in 3 r our hand? 

In attempting this experiment place the name writ- 
ten in ink on your brow or in the palm of the left hand 
and note the sensation. If the person is intense, im- 
pulsive, magnetic or electrical, or the reverse, the re- 
sult will be very apparent. Keen concentration and 
unruffled receptivity of mind lead to immediate and 
best results. The same experiment may apply to sup- 
erscriptions of letters or any articles suffused with 
personal magnetism. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 79 



LESSON VIII. 

SPIRIT IN RELATION TO CONTROL. 

The Uses of Magnetism and Electricity. 

Hypnotism. The Trance. 

Control in "The system oi Philosophy concerning 
Divinity in spiritual science should not be confused 
with control or "controls" as popularized by Spirit- 
ualism. Control, as we use it, has to do with the will 
and not with the organism; it is never forced and it 
refers to choice on the part of the spirit who wishes 
to avail himself of its benefits. The word control has 
been very much abused, as much to the detriment of 
Spiritualism as a factor for enlightenment and civiliza- 
tion as to the detriment of those who submitted to it. 
Among the media, it is the usurpation of the will by 
another, a dominancy of one mind over another for 
malevolent or benevolent purposes. It is, in short, 
obsession and not possession. To be self or soul pos- 
sessed is not to be obsessed. Many, therefore, are ob- 
sessed who, could they understand the law of adeptship 
and control, would not so readily accede to controls. 
We are not here arguing against or criticising a mode 
or the method of excarnate spirit communication. We 



80 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

hold that obsession as control has its needs and uses, 
but we are inclined to believe that were the dangers 
of control, as illustrated by obsession, perceived or 
understood, few indeed would submit their will to its 
power. There are spirits who, not yet having arisen 
above the attractions of earth, and who, entangled in 
its magnetic waves of influence, seek through medium- 
ship an avenue of approach to the old and familiar 
scenes and haunts of pleasure and vice and thus prec- 
ious years are seemingly wasted by these spirits in 
thus seeking to live over or outlive the old karma, 
while the impulse from within the soul for higher uni- 
versal work is temporarily baffled. These unfortunate 
ones, blinded bj- their attractions, like ducks that mis- 
take decoys for their own kind, rush into organisms 
and seek to continue the earth life or find in the sea 
of materiality, whither the earth attractions draw 
them, the means to pS3 r chic gratification or expiation 
whereas, it is literally true that such license on the 
part of spirit and medium are weapons of offense rath- 
er than defense. It is not to be denied that some good 
is achieved by these spirits, directly and indirectly, nor 
is it at all to be wondered at that such intervention 
should be hailed by earth dwellers as a boon; but 
while this is so and while it follows, yet who would 
deny that the better course is to be set at naught for 
it? Who would say that spirit by obsession acquires 
what can only be received by receptivity to angel min- 
strations and the highest self? It is as if the spirit of 
an adult should by hypnotism usurp and obsess the 
will and body of an infant, the better by so doing to 
correct mistakes made or gather up lessons omitted in 
the sphere of infancy. The law is that we shall unfold 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 81 

progressively, not retrogressively, by pushing on and 
into higher and diviner states of consciousness, not 
by reacting the scenes of one sphere and plane of exis- 
tence, or by receiving the lessons which are no longer 
needful. This obstacle must be removed from the 
thought of many who enter post-mortem life unprepar- 
ed, so to speak, for the encampment on the hillsides 
of summer land; who, ignorant of psychic law and its 
attractions, mistake earth loves for love itself and thus 
swim out on the magnetic seas that influx the celestial 
and terrestrial planes to renew life in the body. Ex- 
perience in the spirit world has proven that control 
and its law have a deeper and diviner import than 
that which is illustrated by commonplace obsession. 
We affirm that, while obsession is permitted and is 
necessary as an alternative, while beneficent results 
follow invasions of spirits of the old haunts of earth, 
while mediumship which has opened the door for in- 
tercommunication of immortals and mortals has served 
and now serves an admirable and commendable pur- 
pose; yet, while all this is true, the law of control 
serves soul to higher and diviner ends. The original 
intent of spirits who passed out of the body in return- 
ing to earth and earth loves was to live in the at- 
mosphere of their natural attractions, and it became 
at once the mission as well as arduous task of the 
more advanced spirits, under the ministrations of an- 
gels, to teach them the necessity of withdrawing from 
earth and winging their flight to more celestial spheres. 
Nay, more than this, it is the aim of missionary spir- 
its to posit themselves where karma attracts them, 
and as death cuts asunder the silvery thread which 
associates and binds the spirit with and to the body 



82 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

there to apply the science of control. Natural ly, the 
spirit, freed of the entanglements of earth, seeks at 
once the visions celestial and curiosit}' prompts it to 
peer into the corridors of heaven and seek for entrance 
to the more celestial spheres, and upon being denied 
access to them, and finding that earth loves are more 
potent than psychic attractions of the celestial order, 
it, by the very necessity of its life, recedes from the 
light of spirit, and, for awhile at least, entertains the 
desire to be once again with the loved ones of earth. 
The potency of this love, which is an intense attrac- 
tions, lures it earthward, and down the pathway of 
earth attractions it descends until once more it iden- 
tifies itself with the circle of earth. Its pursuit is for 
the gateway of mediumship that leads to actuality of 
earth attractions and consciousness, and as such pur- 
suit is a very difficult and weary one, and fraught 
with untold disappointments, sorrow and dangers, a 
spirit in search of this golden fleece, like Jason of Greek 
mythology, can come to but one conclusion and one 
end. And so it is. The gateway found and opened, 
the spirit is for years kept in the atmosphere of earth, 
without the sweet consolation of superior sonls who 
shed their glor\ r upon it, chilled by the cold atmos- 
phere of earth or only gladdened when a familiar face 
smiles upon it or a word or message is exchanged at 
the curtain of a cabinet or through the diversified 
channels of mediumship. Years are spent in such ac- 
tion, which may well be likened to, if not called, an ad- 
venture. 

The question at once arises, could not this same 
communication be effected after the manner of science 
rather than ignorance, after the manner of those guard- 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 83 

ian spirits or masters who have learned the law of 
control and seek to teach it without money and price 
to all the newly born into the spirit world; and, if so, 
should not spirits who now roam the earth, seeking 
to obsess as well as obsessing mortals, be benefitted 
thereby? Would not mortals learn a lesson by the 
discover}' and teaching? 

The law of control has then a material and spirit- 
ual phase and signification, the latter ruling and dictat- 
ing the sphere of the former. Thus, to rightly control 
mind, you really control organism, as when the will 
is directed by the purpose of the unchanging law, the 
appetites, passions and desires bend to the decree of 
the will. To obsess or control organism, as is illus- 
trated in spiritualism, is to apply the law materially, 
but to inspire the will by fulfilling the real purpose of 
the law, is not to disposses any mortal or spirit of 
its body or its prerogative by usurping its sphere and 
plane of being. The real signification of control is in- 
spiration, teaching, guidance, not usurpation or obses- 
sion, and while obsession in the sphere of control may 
be said to be and is fundamental to the end of con- 
trol, control as it should be applied, is spiritual 
rather than material. Ample provision is made in 
the desideratum of Nature's law for so-called "lost 
opportunities.' ' And as there are and can be no lost 
opportunities, each sphere and plane of life serving the 
soul exactly in mathematical order, there is no need 
of spirits returning to earth to be re-embodied by 
means of control, or to seek through mediumship to 
live again through another's organism. A dire and 
baleful effect is produced upon humanity by so doing. 
The object of mediumship, as we perceive it, is for 



84 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

such action as will make the ignorant aware of the 
eternal consciousness of spirit and nourish the earth 
and its denizens with the light of the skies; but when 
such purpose is perverted or ignored, and when me- 
diumship affords spirits the means for the untold sins of 
life, spirits becoming vampires, sapping the vital forces 
from the mediums for self-gratification, as is often the 
case, our teaching and the value of it will at once be 
perceived. Therefore we urge the higher spiritual as- 
pect and spiritualizing uses of control. 

Control, then, is the means by which spirits in or 
out of the body affect through the will by hypnotism 
and suggestion, an identity of action — psychic, mental 
and organic — with their own. It has two special forms, 
as it has, as we have elsewhere stated, two particular 
phases. Its phases are material and spiritual, that of 
inspiration, as in mental illumination of seers and the 
inspired media, and that of the trance, where the 
mind of the medium is set at naught by hypnotism. 
Its forms are dependent and independent. The depend- 
ent is the automatic, where the consciousness of the 
medium is displaced or in a sense merged into, if not 
absorbed by the consciousness of the controlling in- 
telligence. The trance is the dependent or automatic 
phase and form. The inspirational is the independent 
form and phase. To induce the automatic form of 
control a preponderance of magnetism is used, and 
you will find that all magnetists or hypnotists are 
batteries for this force. To induce the independent or 
inspirational form of control, electricity is used, that 
is, in preponderancy, and you will find that all insjDir- 
ed media or seers have the electrical constitution, they 
speak and see with their eyes open and are conscious 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 85 

of what is said. Not only is this true, but the law 
holds good throughout the sphere and plane of medium- 
ship. All mediums for physical or material forms of 
the spirit manifestations are batteries for the mag- 
netic force, that is, they supply an organism sufficient- 
ly negatived by electricity and positived by magnetism 
to establish a polarity for the use of the latter, 
which is the condition of matter as electricity is 
the condition of spirit. All mediums for mental 
forms of spirit manifestations are batteries for the 
electrical force, that is, they supply an organism that 
is sufficiently negatived by magnetism and positived 
by electricity to establish a polarity for the use of the 
latter, which is the condition of spirit, as the former 
is the condition of matter. Thus you have the phe- 
nomena of the medium, through magnetism and elec- 
tricity, of the material and spiritual form. All mediums 
are both magnetic and electrical, the physical having a 
preponderance of the former, while the mental having 
the preponderance of the latter. It will at once be 
seen that the automatic phase, both among the phy- 
sical and mental media, is induced largely through the 
use of magnetism, while the independent, that of in- 
spiration, or illumination, is induced by the use of 
electricity. * Automatic writers are those whose be- 

* The question of the conditions and forces which make up the 
outer nervo-psychic envelope of sensitives, mediums and somnam- 
bules through whom supernatural phenomena have occurred is stiU 
a mooted one. Media for physical phenomena are supposed to be 
batteries for the magnetic and media for mental phenomena are 
supposed to be batteries for the electrical forces or conditions. 
Whatever electricity or magnetism may be found to be in the last 
analysis both are products of one and the same spirit, dually po- 
larized. The magnetic has to do with phenomena or the physical, 
objective attributes and forms while the electrical has to do with 



86 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

ings are harmoniously polarized by the magnetic and 
electrical forces; so with trance speakers. Those who 
have produced through their organism both inspira- 
tion and the material phenomena, each class success- 
ful in its phase, are mediums whose organisms respond 
as readily to the magnetic as to the electrical vibra- 
tions, and -could be put into the trance, if the operating 
spirit intelligences so desired. Such represent the shoots 
of the new order of mediums; they are the illustrations 
of the Nemesis of the new dispensation of spiritualism. 
Hypnotism and the trance are cause and effect; that 
is, one leads to the other through the potency of the 
will. Concentration is the key that solves the mystery. 
Hypnotism is the prerogative of spirit. The mother 
that soothes the babe into sleep on her bosom is obey- 
ing the law that closes at night the eyes of the World. 
And creation is as surely hypnotized, when at the 
hour appointed for the earth to recede into darkness, 
although it is unconscious of the process and to the 
action born, as when an expert hypnotist induces it 
by artificial or psychic means. The trance is a form 
of sleep. Sleep is the only natural trance that is known; 

noumena or the mental, subjective (not spiritual) modes of action 
or thought. The one is the finer or higher expression of the other 
as levitation is a higher expression of gravitation. All growth is 
arrested where the electrical force is in the ascendant or where it pre- 
dominates as cold. Cold is electrical, heat is magnetic, one is sym- 
bolized by blue, the other by red. The relation of the will to 
either expression is apparent when one understands the science of 
neurology and ontology — or practices adeptship. As media (Dan- 
iel Home in "Incidents in My Life") can take up red hot coals in 
their hands and neither feel nor receive any burns; as adepts can 
walk on burning red hot cinders and be insensate and not harmed 
as fakers also prove by exhibitions in India; so the will changes 
the polarity of heat into that of cold or vice versa. The suprem- 
acy of the will over nature makes one an adept. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 87 

all other forms, either the automatic or independent in 
mediumship, are forms of consciousness. Sleep proves 
but never disproves consciousness as by dreams, and 
the trance reveals its own absence of a form of con- 
sciousness. There cannot be dreams or knowledge 
where consciousness is not. The highest form of trance 
in mediumship is the one where consciousness is most 
aware of the interior illumination; such is the apoth- 
eosis of trance. It is the perfection of control because 
the perfection of possession. It is the state of soul 
where the will of the Divine is most fully and clearly 
perceived and realized. It is conformity to the Law of 
Uniformity in all. It is the culmination and illustra- 
tion of the deific principle illustrated by the seer of 
Nazareth, "I am in the Father and the Father in me, 
the work that I do I do not of myself. " It is co-oper- 
ative and reciprocal and becomes the spectrum of the 
will of God. This can be attained, not by obsession, 
not by control, as is illustrated in the sphere and 
phenomena of catalepsy, but by the at-oneraent of 
spirit with the Spirit of the Universe. To unfold this 
ideal cf control it is necessary to become the master, 
to realize the eternal self, to order both thought and 
action from the center of spirit and for the general 
good; in short, to practise heirophancy and adeptship 
and for purely altruistic and divine ends. 



88 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



EIGHTH EXPERIMENT. 

Aspire in thought to the highest sphere within spirit 
and perceive how this law operates. Note the results 
of this experiment. Enter into the silence of spirit. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 89 



LESSON IX. 

COLOR. 

Its Definition and Meaning. 

There is and can be no more interesting study in 
nature than that of color. The law of color lies at 
the foundation of psychic attraction and permeates 
the life. Whatever material science may teach con- 
cerning color adds to the interest already aroused on 
the subject. Color itself seems to be the atmosphere 
of all things, and as such, holds in its sphere the 
chemistry of its operations and manifestations. It is 
not the atmosphere of anything, however, but so 
wholly or completely does it transfuse both essence 
and form, that, like the atmosphere, it seems to be 
the medium of life itself. Color is not an entity. 
Both light and sound are forms of motion, induced 
by thought, being the vibration of thought in 
harmonial spheres and planes of attraction. And 
color, like both light and sound, is a manifestation 
of motion. We teach that color in the absolute sense 
does not exist, as pure thought and pure motion is 
colorless. Color suggests an agent and medium of 
communication. Between black and white in the rela- 
tive and absolute form there is no radical difference. 



90 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

The distinction is in the circle of materiality and 
spirituality. In form, as in essence, color bears and 
interprets a reciprocal relation. Black in materiality 
refers to dark (evil) in spirituality, and in the soul or in 
psychic attractions lie the exponent of one color and 
all colors. Pure thought, or thought perfect, is color- 
less, as is likewise that thought which generates black 
in materiality and spirituality. Every impure or black 
thought has its "mate" in spirit and its correspond- 
ency. Thoughts, as personalities or souls, pass through 
the same mode of development from black to white, 
from effect to cause, from birth in matter to the 
apotheosis or Divinity. But do not understand us 
as teaching that thoughts are either entities or the 
form of entities as things. Thoughts are the substance 
of the soul as matter may be likened to the substance 
of spirit or drops of water may be likened to the sub- 
stance of the ocean, without which the ocean could 
have no meaning. Thought, in sphere of expression, 
reveals the soul's approach or ascent to Divinity, it 
designates the degree of attainment in the circle of the 
grand man. Thoughts illustrate soul in spheres and 
planes of expression and manifestation and by color 
reveal the sphere. Thus, with the three primary colors, 
derived from one perfect motion, blending by polarity 
into the black and white, the negative and positive 
form, the red, the blue and the yellow, or the green, 
you have the four complementary colors or the seven 
derivatives. The octave is one in seven, one in two, and 
three in four, through a series of one, two, three, four 
and seven expressions. Thus, with the pure white as 
the basis of Divinity, and black as its manifestation, 
you have the unfoldment of red, the blood, illustrat- 



CLAIR VO YANCE. 91 

ing the heart and love, and blue, illustrating the brain 
or intellect, and the yellow, illustrating the intution or 
light of the spirit which is evolved through the psychic 
ray from within in marriage with the solar ray from 
without. The yellow is regarded as the result of the 
white, both materially and spiritually, polarized by an 
equal ratio of red and blue. And all the intermediary 
hues are shades of white in parts of blue and red, under 
the influence of the ray of light from without. Yellow 
itself is a form of white under the vibration of red, 
but blue and red have a more occult inclination and 
analysis. The blue and the red refer to the spirit em- 
bodied and polarized in matter; and as such they illus- 
trate electrical and magnetic forego m eqxial parts, 3>»e 
(1) shade of blue corresponds to one (1) shade of red 
in results of yellow in aspect to white, and ever is 
this scale the formula of interpretation, because color 
obeys as it illustrates and embodies, the law of rhythm. 
White is the solvent and basis of all electrical and 
magnetic combinations. Black is negative and stands 
in occultism for matter or materiality/, and in spiritual 
science for ignorance, evil, earthliness, the alleged sin- 
ister forces and crude elements of Nature. White is 
positive, and in occultism stands for spirit or spirit- 
uality, and in spiritual science for wisdom, good, heav- 
enliness. Thus the day is in eternal contrast to the 
night, and forces of the one, which are electrical, ever 
act in maximum power against and with the mag- 
netic forces of the darkness or night. Electricity is 
positive while magnetism is negative in the problem 
of the soul, immured in matter. Thus the soul or 
spirit is ever positive to matter and the astral vibra- 
tions, and has in it the law of sovereigntv. Matter 



92 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

is ever negative to spirit, as black is to white or 
night is to day. At a time in the solar year in the 
calendar of earth when the ratio between day and 
night, between the electrical and magnetic forces, is 
fixed by a perfect polarity, these seemingly antagon- 
istic forces play in perfect unity. Then is the hour for 
spirit communion and receptivity. At all other times, 
in concentration and centralization, the psyche must 
exercise a more potent will force to set at naught the 
outward electrical vibration in aspect to the spirit's 
negativeness, against which it operates. This is not 
for a malific end or purpose, but to serve psyche or 
soul. 

T v we should teach that all color reveals the polarity 
of these two forces in aspect to soul, we shall, as we 
believe, state what is actually true. Spirit establishes 
by the inherent law of affinity the spheric polarity be- 
tween electrical and magnetic vibrations, which, as we 
have taught, designate the white and black, the posi- 
tive and negative forms of psyche in expression and 
manifestation. Thus, as electricity and magnetism are 
modes of motion, fixed by the unchanging Law within 
the soul, they, through the operation of spirit, give 
the kaleidoscope of colors, which are so beautiful to 
sense or behold. And as in number one (1) sphere and 
plane, the white of the spirit, in yellow expresses itself 
through red and blue, the psychic lenses or spectrum 
of mind and body, you have the chemistry of all 
colors, the seven and three, the two and one, in the 
myriad of interblendings. Each shade expresses a 
thought as each thought is an interpretation of psy- 
che. Thus, at the center of mind and heart, through 
the white in blue, and the white in red, you have a 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 93 

result in yellow, and the spirit, as well as its aura, 
shines in the colors of its own expression. Nay, more 
than this, could the chemistry of material colors be 
penetrated or known, it would be found, not only 
that each shade corresponds to a degree in the ray 
of white or the mystic circle of psyche, that each color, 
whatever may be its form or wherever it may be found, 
illustrates a certain number of mathematical vibrations, 
exact and uniform in harmonial and reciprocal spheres 
and planes of expression and manifestation, but that- 
at the center of heart, which is ruled through the 
mind, and at the center of the mind, which is ruled 
through the heart, love, the Divine Principle of Psyche, 
establishes the absolute polarity. So that all color 
finds its basis and interpretation in this absolute po- 
larity. Affinity is the law by which this polarity is 
maintained in all the spheres. You are, by this polar- 
ity, reaching the apotheosis in love; and each sphere, 
radiating a color, fixed by this polarity, in the earth 
or in any other planet, marks the psychic unfoldment. 
At once it can be seen that if any shade of red, blue 
or yellow, black or white, purple or green, be your 
hue or the radiation of the aura, you are allied by 
electrical and magnetic polarization with all forms 
that radiate them. So that you have your correspon- 
dency in minerals, in the flora, in the fauna of the 
Cosmos. You have, in short, your psychic attractions, 
so far as color is concerned, to fire, earth, water, air, 
for was it not said by the Pythagoreans and mystics 
of Egypt and Asia that earth is red, water blue, fire 
white and air yellow, and in them is not the soul pre- 
figured and foreshadowed? And thus, the ascent of 
psyche by spirituality is made. The white light of love, 



94 CLAIR VO YANCB. 

operating on mind and heart, in a positive and nega- 
tive polarity of the red and blue of the forces of mag- 
netism and electricity, evoking by a myriad of combi- 
nations of color, the angel of the skies. And ever 
from black, the night of birth, psyche, rises in the lap 
of earth, which is the red, and above the blue, the 
water, by the sun the yellow, until by death and re- 
generation the veil of matter is destroyed and the veil 
of spirituality, analagous in color is given, fire, not 
water, white, at last purifying psyche from all black; 
love, conquering evil, her negative, through the poten- 
cy of the Divine. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 95 



NINTH EXPERIMENT. 

Read clairvoyantly the color of anyone's mental 
and spiritual anra. What color does the spirituality 
make? 

In making this experiment attention should be given 
to color waves which pass before the clairvoyant vis- 
ion. Sometimes the vision of these color waves is 
sensed rather than perceived, and is shown in symbols 
which must be interpreted. Note that coarse colors 
give disagreeable sensations, while fine and delicate 
tints impress one happily. Note also that the domi- 
nating color is the one which manifests the spiritual 
state, while the colors which are absorbed or occult 
furnish the background for definition and interpreta- 
tion. 



96 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



LESSON X. 

CLAIRVOYANCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS 

In Relation To Spiritual Perception. 

That clairvoyance and consciousness have a relation 
to the spiritual perception is the evident fact of this 
series of Teachings. Whatever may be the illumina- 
tion or penetration of clairvoyance, aud whatever may 
be the state or unfoldment of consciousness that the 
spiritual perception uses and foreshadows. The spir- 
itual perception is the "reason" of the spiritual con- 
sciousness and b} r reason we do not refer to cause or 
source but to law. As the mind has reason, so the 
spirit in its interior operations has reason. In other 
words reason is to mind what the spiritual perception 
is to the spiritual consciousness. Intuition and tuition 
refer to spheres of knowledge, the latter to knowledge 
acquired throngh the senses and the former realized 
through divine inspiration. Intuition and tuition have 
to do with consciousness in the sphere of clairvoyance, 
but reason is the law of tuition as the spiritual percep- 
tion is the law of intuition. The law is one and unchang- 
ing in both forms of consciousness. In psychology, rea- 
son is closely affinitized to intuition, and so is it, and 
so should it be, in all spheres of consciousness. Reason 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 97 

may well be called the exterior or posterior guide of 
spirit, for it is by reason that spirit unfolds. Intuition 
is higher in its sphere; it has to do with consciousness 
in the enfolded, unfolding and unfolded spiritual states; 
it is ever adjudged by reason before it is made the 
mode or rule of action, occult as the decision may be, 
yet it is focused through reason and reaches the mind 
or outward consciousness in this wise. You may walk 
by reason in both the outward and inward sense, but 
never do you walk by either one alone. Always do 
they interact, and when they harmoniously interact in 
a perfect polarity, then there is perfect spiritual devel- 
opment. 

The spiritual perception as the "reason" of the spir- 
itual consciousness has to do with clairvoyance and 
consciousness, not in the outward but the inward sense. 
In the mind and all that relates consciousness to it, 
reason is regnant, and it is through reason that both 
tuition and intuition are extended. As long as reason 
balks the way to progress and unfoldment in the in- 
terior sense, it no longer waits upon intuition and has 
become habituated to one mode of action or thought; 
in other words, it seeks for conformity in uniformity 
by conforming variety to a segregated form of unity. 
One word will explain reason in this aspect, and it is 
prejudice. Prejudice is reason subsidized. Reason 
should in the natural and spiritual sense be free to act 
according to evidence or facts. But where it is con- 
formitory in its action, it is disarmed of its power and 
prerogative and is a terrible engine for evil. Where 
reason is open to or receptive of divine inspiration 
and acts harmoniously with conscience and perception 
in the light of both tuition and intuition, you have a 



98 CLAIR VO YANCE. 

sphere of consciousness, beautiful to behold and more 
beautiful to realize. It has been said that reason is a 
more potent guide to knowledge than intuition but 
the statement is not wholly true. Each can and does 
guide, but together they are absolute. One may be guid- 
ed by reason, witness the scientist and experimentalist, 
or by intuiton, witness the mathematician musical com- 
poser, artist, seer; or by both; and in each case excellent 
and beneficent results are attained. But the absolute 
test of power and being is in the latter case, where, as is 
illustrated by the adept, the field of vision and action 
becomes the whole sphere of consciousness, where rea- 
son through intuition and intuition through reason, 
is utilized, and humanity thus attains the ideal or 
spiritual state. Thus, both clairvoyance and conscious- 
ness should wait upon both reason and intuition in 
this twofold sense, and for reasons which we shall now 
specify. 

Firstly, that a line of demarcation should be drawn 
between that which belongs to the sphere of mind in 
the realm of tuition and that which belongs to the 
mind in the realm of intuition. 

Secondly, that one may discern that which is the 
natural seeing and natural perceiving, and that which 
is spiritual seeing and spiritual perceiving. 

Thirdly, that one may know that which is from 
intuition and tuition in the sphere of telepathy and 
divine inspiration. 

Fourthly, that one may perceive impressions, clair- 
voyantly received, through the action of the perception 
on finer ethers in concentration on spirit and spiritual 
things, and that which is the actual impression of an 
operating spirit intelligence. 



CLAIRVOYANCE, 99 

Thus, by such analysis, one will have acquired a 
facility for scientific methods and spiritual penetration 
far beyond the most ardent dreams, and besides, one 
will have attained the rapport of seers, seeing and 
perceiving in the sphere of clairvoyance and conscious- 
ness whether in the bodv or out of it. 



J 



100 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



TENTH EXPERIMENT. 

As a test we offer this experiment: Make compari- 
sons of the specifications here enumerated and observe 
the sources and methods of reason and intuition. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 101 



LESSON XI. 

HOW THE SENSITIVE IS UNFOLDED 

In Clairvoyance. The Spirit's Laboratory. 

This theme is the most interesting as well as the 
most fascinating in the entire program of Teachings. 
First, because it reveals the modus operandi of spirit; 
and, secondly, because the law of adeptship is made 
practical and operative, 

The mystery of the law of medial unfold ment is in 
the fact that spirit is not understood. Were spirit 
and its nature known, the law of its manifestation 
and expression would not be involved in mystery; 
rather, all of its processes would be both open and 
simple. Viewing Nature from the spiritual plane of 
vision and operation, the spirit presents a most varied 
spectacle. It is as if Nature were a vast loom, in which 
the warp and woof were the life forces, on, through 
and in which psyche, the soul, by threads of light, so 
delicate and attenuated that no spectrum of earth 
could reveal them, weaves the manifestation of form. 
And so exact is the form as a representation of the 
idea of the essence or psyche, that, unless counteract- 
ing agencies mar the perfection of it, it is a copy of 
the psyche, so far as matter is able to plagiarize spirit 



102 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

or the ideas of spirit. This, however, is most beauti- 
fully accomplished in the loom of Nature. Few flaws 
in her handiwork can be found. The chalice of the 
lily or rose is immaculate in conception and of spot- 
less purity. The planets and galaxies, as well as the 
tiniest atom, illustrate the Divinity of Nature and the 
superiority of her power. No thread fails to carry out 
the original purpose of the master mind. From the 
cloister of the spirit where its white light burns in 
pristine purity, to the shell where it glows in the form 
of matter, the integrity of the design is intact, and 
therefore faultless. Could you perceive this by observ- 
ing Nature in her own laboratory or workshop, you 
would form an idea or derive a plan of the operation 
of the spirit in the development of medial powers in 
sensitives and mediums. Nature is capable of develop- 
ing the sensitive by an invariable law, which, though 
slow in its action, is sure in its results; but spirit ex- 
carnate can assist Nature, that is, while neither in- 
creasing nor decreasing her balance of power, it can 
arrange conditions for her results. Let it not be for- 
gotten that the science of medial unfoldment is not 
contrary to but in harmony with Nature's law, and 
that it affords spirits the key to the end which she 
foreshadows. Thus, when a sensitive, by Nature's law, 
through experience and education, is ready for the office 
of adeptship to blossom forth into the practical work 
of a seer, sensitive or master, and thus discharge the 
duty which such an one may owe to Divinity, the 
necessary conditions for such an one's birth and work/ 
are formed. The kindred souls, those that are affini- 
tized to the person, and who have been, by a wise 
Providence, held within the sphere of such an one's 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 103 

attractions, perceive that the hour of deliverance is ap- 
proaching, and great care is taken that such an one 
receives the best and finest thought waves and ethereal 
forces for the new birth or phase of work. The im- 
mediate time is the most serious and important, for 
then is- it the duty of the masters on the immortal 
side of life to see to it that the ph\ r sical frame or or- 
ganism is adapted to the changes which are being in- 
wrought. It is as if the person were being readjusted. 
Yet readjustment, in this respect, is not to be con- 
fused with Nature's purpose and law; for whatever 
may be the end or object of adeptship, Nature invar- 
iably amplifies and perfects it through her causation. 
What we mean by readjustment of the organism is the 
adaptation of the outward form to the sphere of the 
spirit excarnate, that is, in the natural sphere organism 
reflects what is within and external to spirit, it serves 
the spirit through matter rather than through the 
spiritual body, The outward or material form answers 
the needs of the spirit in its expression and this is why 
the spirit is "naturalized." The whole establishment 
of the senses and faculties, comprehended by human 
nature, is called into existence through the embodi- 
ment of psyche. Free of the plane of matter psyche 
needs no material form and no apparatus for reach- 
ing a material form, such as the nervous system or 
the sense system, but inasmuch as the sense realm is 
the reflex of the psyche realm, and could have no ex- 
is tence and manifestation were it not for their corres- 
pondencies or correspondency in psyche, the need of 
them becomes at once apparent. The order in the spir- 
itual world is the supersentient order in the natural 
world; that is, spirit incarnate acts outwardly and in- 



104 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

wardly through materiality and a polarity establish- 
ed through the ratio of forces in their geometrical and 
algebraic expression in matter, while spirit excarnate 
in its operation upon matter reaches the sense plane 
inversely or reversely, as has been declared, through 
another but supersentient polarity. In the normal man 
the brain and mind are polarized to balance the subt- 
ler and finer pS3 r chic forces of the spirit. But in the 
readjustment the sensitives' organism is depolarized 
materially, so as to be capable of reflecting all that is 
possible with the excarnate spirit under its established 
polarity. This polarization of both planes is only 
possible with those whose natural sensitivenecs of the 
organism responds to either order of vibrations and 
where no injury will be done. Spirit acts normally in 
both realms, affording all that is needful to the per- 
fection of the expression of the sensitive so far as ma- 
teriality is concerned, and affording, also, all that is 
needful to the perfection of the excarnate spirit in the 
uses to which it puts adeptship. The organism and 
spirit of the sensitive are so adjusted to the spiritual 
body and spirit of the affinitizing spirit or spirits that 
its thought need but be reflected in the spirit of the 
sensitive, when the control is affected by the will of 
the spirit, to be vibrated through the harmonial planes 
and spheres of psychic, mental and organic spectra, 
and received in whatever form is designed. Sensitive-* 
ness is a state of mental receptivity as well as organic 
readjustment to ps3^chic planes of impressibility. The 
organism, being subject to the law of matter in the 
natural world, and the law of spirit in the spiritual 
world, is thus interacted upon, and the most perfect 
concentration of mind is necessary, where the organism 



CLAIRVOYANCE, 105 

is not responsive to the will of the excarnate intelli- 
gence, or even where it is in perfect accord, so that no 
mar or jar may occur in the translation of the idea. 
Very few, indeed, even of the media, understand the 
delicacy of the relation, and thus errors are transmit- 
ted to the material plane and form a large percentage 
of the pabulum sent to hungry mortals by the spirit, 
which, were the concentration perfect, or were recep- 
tivity and impressibility absolute could altogether be 
avoided. Adeptship is but another name for the abil- 
ity of spirit to reflect through polarization in reverse 
relation to its normal life, by a perfect control of or- 
ganism, so far as its impressibility is concerned, and 
of mind so far as its receptivity is concerned, that 
which is given from the subjective, interior, spiritual 
sphere of Divinity; and enables an excarnate spirit to re- 
verse the normal order of spirit in the form and apply 
the process of action that obtains on the ethereal 
plane. Yet, in all the diversified forms of adeptship, 
the work of the excarnate spirit is affected by a con- 
formity to material laws, conditions and elements. 
Psychic force is used instead of instrumentalities. 

The sensitive is thus organized and prepared for his 
work and it is easily seen that the degree of the work 
done or to be done by the spirit depends entirely upon 
the absoluteness of the control or guidance. Where 
there is disharmony or pride, selfishness or vice to con- 
tend with, not only will the manifestations be impair- 
ed and distorted, if not dispersed, but the development 
will be retarted and violent. There is a divine signifi- 
cation to adeptship. It obeys a law of soul. It obeys 
a will as eternal and immutable as God. So let it be 
received. 



106 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

The descent of this light from the higher spheres is 
a wonderful event to the spirit and it means much for 
the truth. In the spirit, where this birth or develop- 
ment is at first seen the process and travail are so 
delicate and rehned that it is seldom noticed or felt; 
but when the light reaches and hence operates on the 
form, in the transfusion and depolarization of the par- 
ticles of matter, and when the repolarization, in the 
spiritual sense, of the nerve centers takes place inverse- 
ly to their normal action, as when the birth throes 
act on the physical form, then there is more or less 
pain. Then is it that adeptship is reaching its 
normal and singular action. 

To effect this devolopment is to let spirit take its 
course. All development must be outwrought by the 
spirit's formula. Galvanic and hypnotic forces may 
eifect an apparent growth, but the process of incuba- 
tion in spiritualism is not the real means to the real end. 
Hypnotism is a dangerous expedient. Adeptship is spir- 
itual in its sphere, inception and office and can be reach- 
ed and unfolded best by Nature's invariable formula. 

Thus, when the masters who are ever alert for the 
chosen ones, behold any who are about to blossom 
into medial unfoidment, certain teachers, divinely ap- 
pointed for their work and qualified for their sphere 
of inspiration, select out of other affinitized spirits 
those who are consecrated to the office of adeptship 
and who, by the elements which they are able to give 
to the sensitive by means of an inter-psychic harmony, 
afford a sure and permanent basis of action. Where 
this guidance is not effected, a sensitive is subject, by 
a variable polarity of attractions and repulsions, to 
all kinds of influences, in and out of the body, 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 107 

but where harmon} r of spirit and organism reigns, 
where the normal equilibrium of spirituality, through 
the power of self control, is attained, there is perfect 
action in the law and results of the law of adeptship. 
The sensitive's brain as a terrestrial magnet, is polar- 
ized by the magnet or battery of the finer forces, 
etherial in their nature; the spirits in concentration 
acting uniformly in thought, which responds spiritually 
to the poles of the sensitive's brain and the poles of 
the spirit's external batteries at a center (the solar 
plexus) of radiation. 

And thus, through this means, the phenomena, in the 
material and mental realm, are produced. To effect 
this polarity is the object of development; and when 
the physical vibrations in the action of the organism 
correspond to the mental vibrations in the action of 
the brain, and all harmonize with the thought of 
the spirits in the concentration of their forces and 
batteries, then a sensitive is ready for work. 

There is this to be said concerning the law that 
relates spirits to the media as guides cr messengers. 
There is no selection, as is commonly anticipated or 
understood among mortals, unless the selection be 
understood to be the pre-ordained arrangements of 
Nature. Guides, like atoms, have their attractions. 
They stand for and embody certain principles, and 
are as much within the influence of a sensitive to 
whom they are attracted as the gas designated ox- 
ygen is within the ethers of earth. There is cause 
and reason for all attractions. Each soul has its na- 
tural polarity in the attractions and repulsions of 
souls; all are not drawn to the same soul sphere nor 
to the same plane of revealment and manifestation of 



108 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

thought. And as each soul finds its own in the neg- 
ative and positive relation, so each sensitive in the 
psychic sphere obeys the law which enspheres its be- 
loved angels. And as is the degree of the circle of the 
expression and collateral environments, so the psychic 
attractions. All great souls, on the excarnate side of 
life, reach to their own through the ramified and var- 
ious planes and spheres of spirit, and thus the triangle, 
the double triangle, or the square and the circle, illus- 
trate how, from one point to two and from two to 
one, three lines measure the square of materiality and 
the circle of spirituality, all souls on all planets re- 
sponding to one law that draws each and all to one 
divine center of life, light and love. 



CLAIR VO YANCE. 109 

ELEVENTH EXPERIMENT. 

Make a clairvoyant reading. In making this ex- 
periment, use the following formula. Note the impres- 
sions and visions which impinge upon the mind as you 
touch or enter into communication with the person or 
thine. 



FORMULA. 

1. Describe the person or thing; the person as to 
character, temperament and personality; the thing as 
to size, nature, material. 

2. Describe the past, present and future. 

3. As to person: Adaptation in life, mental and 
business endowments. As to thing: Location, migra- 
tions, uses. 

4. As to person: Travel, sickness, changes, accidents, 
deaths. As to thing: History. 

5. As to person: Who are friends or enemies and 
who are apt to be friends or enemies? As to thing: 
Its effect on life. 

6. Describe the spirit that you see in and out of the 
body as to appearance. State names, ages, conditions. 
What message is given? As to thing: W T hat scenes 
and visions are evoked. 

7. General remarks. 



110 CLAIRVOYANCE. 



LESSON XII. 
The Higher Aspects of Clairvoyance. 

All powers of the spirit may be abused, that is, not 
used as the unchanging law of psyche designed. They 
may be subsidized for purposes which are temporal 
and not employed for ends which are divine. We here 
speak of the spiritual powers and of adeptship in 
contradistinction to talents or genius, or even psychom- 
etry in its restricted sense or uses; and therefore the 
sensitive should remember that whatever may be his 
phase or phases of adeptship, he will be held account- 
able for and the good that he attains will be perceived 
and determined by the consecration of these powers to 
their divine end. The fortune-teller, palmist, card 
reader, clairvoyante, are doing a work in a sense 
helpful to humanity, but, ignorant of the import of 
the science to which they owe their fortune and suc- 
cess, they pervert, either unknowingly or knowingly 
its sacred aims, and while vitiating public opinion, 
at the same time undermine the foundation of faith 
in the genuine manifestations and inspirations of the 
spirit. Much more should be said upon this all im- 
portant feature of the subject than would at first 
seem feasible, and yet the cause of truth will defend 



CLAIRVOYANCE. Ill 

itself by its own work against the enemies outside 
of or within its own household. 

The sensitive seeking clairvoyant development is too 
apt to be affected by the material uses to which clair- 
voyance can be put, and the practical ends to be at- 
tained thereby, than by the interior and spiritual 
blessings which follow a perfect consecration of one's 
powers to divine ends. Each one seems to be seeking 
for manifestations, to see something or somewhat, 
rather than to perceive the subjective or causal sphere 
of the operations of the spirit and the extended range 
of forces and principles which make up the sphere of 
the soul's life and Divinity. It is not to be deplored 
that this is so, nor is such seeking to be depreciated, 
but it is strange that all should not unfold a clairvoy- 
ance in the sphere of which the light and law of the 
spirit could be perceived and realized. The spirit 
manifestations on the objective planes and the spirit - 
ual manifestations in the subjective spheres have a 
purpose, and that purpose is in the formal way to 
reveal the expression and consciousness of the soul; 
not to hold one to a fixed kaleidoscope of phenomena 
and noumena, simply as an object of pleasure, but to 
impress upon each one through them the sense of duty. 
Thus there is a line of demarcation to be drawn be- 
tween a medium who literalizes or materializes 
spiritual things, and cares naught for or refuses to be 
led into the higher Teachings of the spirit, and one 
who, while recognizing the sphere of mediumship, yet 
consecrates all mediumship to Divinity; shows by 
teaching, behavior, works and perception that matter 
is the vessel into which the spirit pours its forces and 



112 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

light, to open up the interior ps} r chic realms and place 
the mind upon heavenly things. 

To be able to see clairvoyantly and give trance or 
independent tests of spirit presences is well in its place 
but such work is altogether auxiliary to the real work 
and office of the spirit on both sides of life. Clairvoy- 
ance in its higher aspect is divination through a con- 
sciousness illumined and unfolded by spirituality. 
Spirituality without or with adeptship is the key to 
psychic realization. Adeptship through the mental 
and physical phases proves objectively the deathless 
consciousness, the pre and postmortem power of spirit, 
but spirituality here and everywhere makes this an 
experience and a realization. There are sensitives 
who are both unregenerate and material; that is, they 
have not yet been "born of the spirit," baptized with 
its own fire of inspiration. To those who, like Nico- 
demus, seek to understand the esoteric significance 
of the exoteric fact of birth, Jesus points not to the 
phenomena of embodiment through the generative 
processes of Nature, but to the awakening of the 
spirit as out of a sleep into a consciousness of spiritual 
being. And this awakening is attained through spirit- 
uality and leads to consecration. There is no question 
but that the mission of modern spiritualism is to place 
both spirit and medium ship in a sphere where their 
uses and purposes will be perceived, and where me- 
diums as well as their disciples will have no other 
propaganda than the inspirations of truth. When 
this shall have been attained, jealous}^, envy, spite, 
selfishness among the media and workers will have 
ceased, and the world will reap the peaceful benefits 
of a spotless and consecrated representation of the 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 113 

forces of heaven. This is the higher aspect of clair- 
voyance as viewed from the standpoint of adeptship 
and the uses to which spiritual power should be put. 

There is, however, an aspect to clairvoyance as a 
factor of consciousness which we wish now to men- 
tion, and which, if fully understood, refers to benefits 
to sensitives and all who are interested in psychic 
development. If the exercise of adeptship in the 
sphere of clairvoyance has material advantages, 
surely there are spiritual that have not been real- 
ized. If clairvo3 r ance enables one to see spirits in 
and out of the body, time and space being no barriers, 
surely it also enables one to perceive the height, 
depth and breadth of the sphere of the spirit. And 
this is the all important aspect to which we wish to 
call your attention, for two reasons: First, that you 
may be divinely human in the uses to which you put con- 
science, will, faculties, functions and prerogatives; second- 
ly, that you may know your sphere and mission in the 
cosmos. That clairvoj-ance can procure 3 t ou these 
benefits is evidenced b} r the facts which it affords of 
divination. The consciousness, symbol of the All See- 
ing Eye, is free to perceive the fullness of God. In it 
God is reflected and revealed, but the quality of the re- 
flection and revelation depends altogether upon the grade 
of spirituality. As spirituality deepens and partakes 
more and more of the essence, it opens the sphere 
of spiritual light, and in that sphere the spirit per- 
ceives God. To perceive the object of the unchanging 
law is not to remove from one planet to another, nor 
to force the apotheosis by magic, if that could be done, 
but it is to look into psyche from the plane and 



114 CLAIRVOYANCE. 

sphere in which you manifest, and unfolding yourself 
into the highest degree in the circle of your expression 
on earth, to utilize the light that belongs to you. For 
the mission of spirit through mediumship and 
adeptship is to show that you are as near to psyche 
here on this planet, as near to the principle of being, 
as near to God, as you ever can be, and that since 
you can really commune with the Divine Presence so 
you can spiritually commune with spirit in the sphere 
of consciousness. Forms but veil the spirit; they do 
not set it at naught; they but manifest it; they do 
not make communion impossible. The spirit when 
truly penetrated reveals the law of its embodiments 
and expressions, and this clairvoyance elaborates and 
elucidates. 

It is then man's privilege to penetrate the interior 
spirit of the universe and grow potent and divine 
through spirituality. This is the key to the realms 
on high, the happy gateway to the sky. This is the 
light of consciousness that men have said never was 
on sea or land, but is perceived within the curtain 
of the senses. This is the realm where as from a uni- 
versal, unchanging and eternal polarity souls swarm 
to catch the breath of the Light of the World. This 
is the heart of the White Rose, that fashions each 
petal white, that the eye may see the divinity of the 
spirit and know that spiritual unfoldment and realiz- 
ation lead to freedom, love and peace. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 115 



TWELFTH EXPERIMENT. 

Withhold nothing, but perceive how clairvoyance 
opens the sphere of life eternal in all worlds. Apply 
the rationale of clairvoyance to the vision and per- 
ception and enter the temple of the outermost and 
innermost Reality. 



116 CLAIR VO YANCE. 



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burns at its altar there is no shadow or changing. 
Its inspiration is perfect, its power all embracing, 
its love surpassingly sweet. Within the cloister or 
cabinet of its walls angels meet with one accord and 
spirit; overarching it is unbounded love. Love is its 
oracle and her law is perfect. Thus make the anabasis 
of the soul, from the depth to the height, out of the 
sense realm into the spirit of all things, that the spirit 
may have no evil between it and God, but that Divin- 
ity and Humanit3 r may be one in Harmony, Light, 
Consciousness and Peace. Go forth, and as the chil- 
dren of the earth, bear your lillies to the upper light 
and the fragrance of spirituality will reward you for 
your toil. We shall breathe upon you the melodies of 
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